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Advice licensee Centrepoint Alliance has entered an agreement to acquire the comprehensive financial advice book of the super fund’s subsidiary firm.
A coalition of industry groups including the SMSF Association is demanding the government and the opposition “immediately and unequivocally rule out any move to tax unrealised investment gains in any part of the tax system”.
AMP’s new chair has used his inaugural AGM address to call for policy reform on the “decumulation” phase of superannuation and position AMP as a key player in addressing the challenge.
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has quashed hopes of an out-of-schedule rate cut, telling an event in Sydney that it remains too early to determine the trajectory of interest rates as the RBA grapples with growing global economic volatility.