A guide to the Professional Planner August 2013 edition and links to authors and additional content.

features

08 – Best Practice Competition 2013
A quality field of entrants reveals a sector in rude health

10 – best practice
The ABC of coming to grips with the FDS

20 – spotlight
How one licensee emerged from the pack to be named the best

24 – best practice
Seven steps to selling your services better

25 – in focus
An alternative approach to retirement income planning

30 – risk
Breathing life into the insurance market

32 – self-managed super
Nick Sherry’s warnings about “unreasonable leakage” to SMSFs

34 – self-managed super
What right does the taxman have to access a self-managed fund?

37 – sharemarket
It’s half-time – so what is the score?

38 – other people’s money
The long and the short of Australian share funds

40 – technical
Explaining the inherent investment principles of ETFs

42 – the profession
To be free from the dead hand of government

43 – philanthropy
Not just a conversation for tax time any more

regulars

04 – from the editor
Why it will take a collective effort

06 – wrap
A round-up of the month that was

by association
36 – Graeme Colley (SPAA)
44 – Brad Fox (AFA)
45 Mark Rantall (FPA)

46 – Final Word
You’d have to be game to describe this as a sport

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