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Mike Taylor

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Mike Taylor is Managing Editor of the financial services publications Money Management and Super Review. He has been a journalist for the past 41 years with a career spanning coverage of financial services, federal and state politics and industrial relations.

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23 Jul

Financial planning

FPA launches new CPD platform

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new CPD platform aimed at aggregating FPA, Financial Adviser...

A law firm has warned on the restrictive definitions of what qualifies as a fixed trust for tax purposes, adding it must not be assumed a unit trust was necessarily a fixed trust.

23 Jul

Financial planning

Should product advice negate tax deductibility?

Most financial advisers strongly support the tax deductibility of advice, except where it involves products sales...

23 Jul

Superannuation

Don’t ‘walk back’ the promised SG increase

Industry Super Australia has urged the Government to declare it will not seek to ‘walk back’ the planned increase...

Jul 19 2019 - 8:15am

The new future of Advice

Does change drive opportunity for those prepared to embrace it? The forces shaping the advice industry present...

Research from BT Financial Group showed a third of Australians live pay cheque to pay cheque and also have debt.

23 Jul

Policy & Regulation

Hume criticised for APRA defence

The organisation representing victims of the Trio Capital collapse of criticised the Assistant Minister for...

AMP has today announced the launch of a series of new features to AMP Elevate insurance to increase flexibility of offerings.

22 Jul

Superannuation

More than 440 AMP customers want insurance reinstated

More than 440 AMP superannuation customers have demanded to have their cancelled insurance cover reinstated,...

Around 350 Australians with links to Swiss banking managers were likely to have been involved in a tax evasion scheme and will be investigated by the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce.

22 Jul

Financial planning

FPA urges tax-deductibility for ‘registered’ planners

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Government to make financial advice tax-deductible if it is...

Jul 12 2019 - 7:00am

Time to shift to a low cost Managed Account solution

The Bell Potter GPS is a portfolio modelling and rebalancing solution which gives you access to professionally...

ASIC warns against use of binary option provider

19 Jul

Life/Risk

AFA warns on higher advised risk premiums

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that a significant unintended consequence of the Government’s...

19 Jul

Life/Risk

Did the Govt fail to understand ‘risk-only’ super fund members?

Serious questions have been raised about whether the Government even understood the existence of hundreds of...

Industry Super Australia claims the major banks are switching customers into under-performing retail super funds via direct sales tactics which bypass planners.

19 Jul

Superannuation

Frydenberg notes industry fund among under-performers

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has refused to concede the universal out-performance of industry funds,...

18 Jul

Policy & Regulation

FASEA announces credits for accounting designations

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has announced the credits which will be attributed for the...

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