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Superannuation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have welcomed the proposed reforms aimed at increasing the role of...
Financial planning
Superannuation funds have identified the manner which Government policy changes and increased regulation is pushing the cost of advice beyond the means of many low-income...
Financial planning
The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed how it placed conditions on superannuation funds which had the effect of ending the payment of commissi...
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....
Financial planning
Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned Nicholas Ellis who was previously banned for six years for dishonest conduct....
Superannuation
The average self-managed superannuation fund with a balance less than $200,000 generated negative returns over three successive financial years, according to the Australi...
Financial planning
The SMSF Association wants the Government to dump its limited licensing regime for accountants on the basis of it having failed to meet its objectives and having, instead...
Policy & Regulation
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...
Financial planning
There has been no shortage of consumers and small businesses looking to file legacy complaints with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, with data suggesting le...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has further suspended Halifax Investments Services’ Australian Financial Services Licence....
Funds management
Union Standard International Group may proceed against the corporate watchdog for damages arising from inaccurate statements and a failure to mention key matters regardin...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will regard personal advice entailing client best interests as obviating many of the adviser strictures of the new de...
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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,...