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Superannuation

The corporate regulator will act if it sees false, misleading or deceptive conduct in member disclosures of all super funds – not just those that failed the performance t...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator is reviewing select finfluencers to understand their business models and how the financial services laws apply to their activity....

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Superannuation

The corporate regulator intends to monitor members from underperforming super funds from being swayed into an untested fund that is in reality performing worse, however i...

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Financial planning

This is the lowest pass rate, beating the previous record of 67%, with only two exam sittings remaining this year....

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Policy & Regulation

Successful litigation against NAB, Westpac and Dixon Advisory could add enough to the corporate regulators coffers to cover the difference from the reduced levy....

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Policy & Regulation

Without the Government’s intervention, levies on financial advice would have increased from $25.6 million in 2017-18 to an estimated $71.4 million in 2020-21....

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Financial planning

While the corporate regulator’s levy relief for financial advisers is welcome other financial services participants are also being subject to rising fees that are debilit...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry bodies have welcomed the Government’s decision to implement a temporary reduction in cost recovery levies for the next two years, as well as a review of the indu...

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Financial planning

This relief would see the corporate regulator’s levy restored to its FY19 level of $1,142 per adviser for the next two years, while the flat per licensee charge would rem...

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog has said it has been communicating with Government and Treasury about its funding model for three years but that they needed to be compliant with t...

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Policy & Regulation

Some of the CP 332 ‘Promoting access to affordable advice for consumers’ project has been put on hold as the corporate regulator assesses what funding will be needed for ...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator alleges former financial adviser Lawrence Toledo breached a ban that was in response for not acting in clients’ best interest....

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Financial planning

The first penalty of its kind, the penalty relates to allegations from the corporate regulator in 2019 that the big four bank issued defective fee disclosure statements t...

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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has confirmed it will use 80% of its funding towards enforcement, supervision, and surveillance activities for financial year 2021-22....

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Superannuation

The Your Future, Your Super performance test will only disclose to superannuation funds whether they had passed or failed and would not give any value indications. ...

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