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TPB starts consultation on TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... stakeholders to clarify any uncertainty around the amendments to the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA). The TPB is helping advisers prepare for the regulatory change and providing them with guidance for the new policy, which will come in on July 1 ...

Self-education cap "short sighted": SPAA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... Government and regulators have concerns about the SMSF sector. One way to help alleviate those concerns is to ensure SMSF advisers are encouraged to continually upgrade their skills," he said.

AMP, MLC impose Stronger Super levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... levy to pay for expenses related to the government's Stronger Super regime. The news came when MLC sent out a letter to advisers warning that such a levy would be introduced after mid-October. The Australian reported that the levy would cost members ...

Super fund mergers pose capacity problem

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... stocks, Jollie believes that for some super funds, returns are likely to be much more beta-driven going forward. Frontier Advisers puts the critical mass for the limit at which super funds can invest in micro-caps at $2-3 billion, while its theoretical ...

WB advisers join CBA's Financial Wisdom

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... to Financial Wisdom in order to access the resources and service support that Financial Wisdom can supply to both our advisers and our administration staff," WB Financial Chairman Garry Connelly said. "WB will continue to provide services to advisers ...

Research houses flag 'rating shopping' to advisers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
Research houses Zenith, van Eyk and Morningstar will make it easier for advisers to see when a fund manager pulls out of the rating process following new regulatory guidelines aimed at preventing investment houses from shopping around for favourable ...

Clients want a "social" relationship with advisers

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... in addition to building trust by being transparent when using social media platforms, there were other struggles for advisers to negotiate. "At any one time an adviser could be working his or her own brand, the brand of the business, the dealer group ...

Insurers take "adversarial approach" to claims

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... industry we haven't done a very good job on showing the positive outcomes of insurance," the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. To Beddoes Institute's Rebecca Sheils, "consumers had a sense that it would be more complex ...

Self-education cap to harm senior workers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... the retirement of experienced skilled professionals. "Older Australians are encouraged by ministers and bureaucratic advisers to maintain the currency of their skills but this proposal quite simply devalues that advice and plays right into the kind of ...

Advisers hitting SMSF service targets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... the rise according to a new study by Macquarie Adviser services. This year's Cash Satisfaction Survey has revealed that advisers' self-evaluation for meeting the needs of SMSF clients had increased from 8.4 out of ten to 8.7 in 2013. The research also ...