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Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
An industry turf war has erupted after accountants said they want the Federal Government to dump adviser requests to restrict the term 'financial planner'. The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) fired the first shots yesterday, saying moves to ...

Ansett trustees make a move

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... ex-Ansett workers will receive information on their super after trustees, Mercer Investment Nominees, alerted the federal government of its plans. Bill Shorten, assistant treasurer and minister for superannuation, said the statements will give members ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax ...

$55 million for Trio super fraud victims

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... the Trio Capital superannuation fund fraud will receive $55 million in compensation from a special levy, the Federal Government announced today. Members of four super funds formerly under the trusteeship of Trio will recover all lost funds after Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... trade figures weighed against relief that MPs in Washington had reached an agreement late Friday to avoid a federal government shutdown in the world's biggest economy. Shanghai edged up a day after China posted its first quarterly trade deficit in seven ...

Extra year for tax related overhauls

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The federal government has granted an extra year to both Managed Investment Trusts (MITs) and financial planners providing tax advice to come to terms with new legislation. Bill Shorten, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services and superannuation ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... company Roy Morgan Research has challenged the ATO, saying the super guarantee charge is not a tax and the Federal Government has no right to impose it on business as it is for private purposes. The ATO and the Federal Government have argued that it ...

Financial planners crushed by rigid ATO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... concessional cap in the 2009-10 financial year, an increase of 75.6 per cent on the previous year, after the Federal Government halved the caps. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the Association of Financial Advisers said the industry needed to keep ...

More time needed for Stronger Super side issues: Costello

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... with all the issues involved in the implementation of the Stronger Super package by June, the chair of the Federal Government's working group on the super system review has told the Conference of Major Super Funds. Paul Costello, chairman of the Stronger ...

Record NSW election loss could slow federal reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... 16.5 per cent swing last weekend against the NSW Labor Party has the potential to derail many of the Gillard federal government's reforms, pushing a nervous federal government to pull more of its punches on major changes to the financial sector. The ...