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NewsNext adviser exam less than a fortnight away as cumulative pass mark holds at 92.8%
The 34th exam cycle runs on 20 August with bookings now closed, after June results took the number of individuals to have passed the profession's entry exam past 21,000.
NewsPayday super's first month done, but the June quarter tail carries a contributions cap sting
The seven-business-day regime is live, the ATO's transitional guidance is in force, and advisers are being warned that deferred June quarter contributions could push higher-income clients over their concessional caps.
EditorialA decade of tax
Treasury opened consultation on the second tranche of the CGT and negative gearing reforms on 4 August. Submissions closed on 21 August. There are further tranches to come.
EditorialThe register is recovering. The profession is not.
Adviser numbers have risen for five straight weeks. That is the least useful number in financial advice, and the industry keeps reporting it as though it were the most.
EditorialThe scheme is working. The funding model is not.
Advisers are about to pay for a third round of failures they had no part in. Defending the levy's design has become indefensible, and defending compensation itself remains essential.
EditorialTwelve years late, but welcome: the SMSF residential borrowing ban
The prohibition on new residential LRBAs commences Monday. The policy is right. The process that delivered it, and the drafting it left behind, deserve less applause.
EditorialGive AI the Job Nobody Wants
I bet two years of my life companies would let AI do the work they value. They did not. Here's why I think advice will be the last job AI takes.
EditorialFour reasons to invest in emerging markets
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Structuring retirement drawdowns on platform
A practical CPD piece on modelling decumulation and evidencing suitability — produced by HUB24.