Regulatory & technical update

This week’s podcast looks back at some of the biggest issues that arose during 2020 – technically speaking. We focus on where the bring forward legislation and annual consent is at and key pieces of consultation released by ASIC.

This week’s podcast discusses what happened in Parliament this week, and a look at the SG discussion from the Retirement Income Review.

This week’s podcast discusses an ASIC report on insurance in super for non-advised members, and the start of a series of observations of the Retirement Income Review.

This week’s podcast discusses three important documents released this week that have the potential to re-frame the advice landscape into the future.

This week’s podcast discusses what happened during this week’s parliamentary sittings.

This week’s podcast discusses seven things we hope to see in the seven weeks remaining until Christmas 2020.

This week’s podcast discusses the latest draft guide issued by FASEA in respect of the Code of Ethics.

This week’s podcast discusses the Future Of Advice Summit and a paper commissioned by the Financial Services Council written by Rice Warner.

This week’s podcast delves into the latest update regarding the tax changes announced in the 2020/21 Federal Budget and some aspects of the Your Future, Your Super measures announced the same night.

This week’s podcast discusses the 2020 Federal Budget and Opposition response, as well as the latest draft FASEA guidance to the Code of Ethics.

This week’s podcast delves into insights drawn from the latest results from the August 2020 sitting of the FASEA exam.

This week’s podcast discusses some of the rumours for change in the 2020 Federal Budget.

This week’s podcast addresses the recent Bill introduced to Parliament to increase the maximum number of members of a SMSF from 4 to 6.

This week’s podcast covers the upcoming changes to COVID-19 stimulus measures and the impacts for employees and businesses.

This week’s podcast covers the progress of legislation through this week’s sitting of Parliament as well as some of the rumours of proposed measures for the upcoming Federal Budget.

This week’s podcast covers legislation debated in Parliament since resuming earlier in the week, the announcement from the Assistant Minister Jane Hume that the single disciplinary body will be delayed until the end of next year as well as an update on the Early Release super statistics and APRA’s quarterly super statistics.

This week’s podcast covers possible changes to some social security payments as a result of no automatic indexation of payments in September 2020, continued speculation around changes to the rate of super guarantee and what’s in store for Parliament when it resumes next week.

This week’s podcast covers the upcoming expiration of the Superannuation guarantee amnesty from 7 September, recap on claiming tax deductions, as well as reminders of what to look out for when assessing clients eligibility to make contributions in the new financial year based on their total super balance on the previous 30 June.

This week’s podcast covers changes to JobKeeper from the end of September, a reminder on changes to jobseeker waiting periods from the end of September 2020, as well as an update on the resumption of Federal Parliament at the end of August and a draft determination from the ATO on in-house assets for SMSFs.

For advisers, an overview of Government’s proposed HomeBuilder program prepared by our BT technical team.

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