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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended the licenses of Theta Asset Management and Valuestream Investment Management, both in external administ...

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Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

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Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

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The Federal Government has been accused of pandering to the big banks and reneging on the recommendations of the Royal Commission by pursuing new legislation to alter def...

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Durand Oliver has been appointed as distribution manager to the independent platform provider....

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Self-Managed Superannuation Funds should be exempted from the Government’s new design and distribution regime because they are not like other financial products, accordin...

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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is noting only three members of its executive team following the departure of its chief executive officer, Colin Chri...

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Advisers and their clients should retain control of opt-in arrangements and there should be flexibility for low fee-paying clients with less frequent interactions, accord...

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The Federal Treasury has delivered only vague answers to Parliamentary questioning about the future funding of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....

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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now officially overdue in providing answers to key questions around Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

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Insurance inside superannuation needs a properly resourced code administrator with sanction powers, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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