The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended the licenses of Theta Asset Management and Valuestream Investment Management, both in external administ...
Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...
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...
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...
Durand Oliver has been appointed as distribution manager to the independent platform provider....
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...
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...
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...
The Federal Treasury has delivered only vague answers to Parliamentary questioning about the future funding of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now officially overdue in providing answers to key questions around Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...
Insurance inside superannuation needs a properly resourced code administrator with sanction powers, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...