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Superannuation

The corporate regulator has alleged misconduct against the bank’s home loan clients while it was still under ownership of the industry superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

The Government is seeking to make amendments to the design and distribution obligation regime including removing the requirement for advisers and licensees to report whet...

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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog’s chair, Joe Longo, has no plans to let up on the body’s litigation commitment despite pulling back on the public emphasis his predecessor had plac...

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator’s new chair, Joe Longo, believes that reading the publicly available report of the regulator’s governance practices is sufficient and has not aske...

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Financial planning

Four associates and a lawyer have been charged with criminal offences after Members Alliance and Benchmark groups collapsed with the corporate regulator alleging the grou...

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People & Products

Former Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore will be chair of the authority that will oversee the corporate and prudential regulators....

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Financial planning

While it is great to see retail investors investing in the stockmarket for the first time, a sharp market downturn could put them off the market for good, warns Airlie....

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Policy & Regulation

None of the outcomes resulted in criminal proceedings, and there is a similar percentage of ongoing cases by the corporate regulator....

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Superannuation

The Federal Court has found that it made false or misleading representations to members to avoid them moving to the MySuper product....

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Policy & Regulation

To reduce the reporting burden, the corporate regulator is allowing licensees to batch upload reports that derive from a single root cause as part of the new breach repor...

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Policy & Regulation

If the corporate regulator had funds awarded by penalties put into the financial advice levy it could look like a new revenue stream aimed at players with deep pockets....

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Financial planning

The advice industry is turning into a structure where only the wealthy can afford advice and digital offerings will only create more corruption, according to a financial ...

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Features

While finfluencers are on the rise and targeting younger investors, this presents an opportunity for advisers to help investors separate the information from the noise, w...

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Policy & Regulation

Product issuers and distributors need to be careful with what incentives apply to distributors who sell products to those target customers, according to EY....

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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has said there was an outstanding amount of $2.4 million unpaid by the financial advice sector on its total regulatory cost of $59.59 million durin...

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