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Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council has announced further consumer protections for the Life Insurance Code of Practice. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s most senior financial planning executives cited advice they had given to the chair of the Financial Adviser Standar...
Financial planning
The Australian Banking Association has announced two temporary changes to the Banking Code of Practice, which have been approved by the corporate regulator....
Financial planning
Capital Partners founder, David Andrews has backed the FASEA regime and the code of conduct as key differentiators between those giving advice and those flogging products...
Policy & Regulation
Insurance inside superannuation needs a properly resourced code administrator with sanction powers, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Financial planning
More than 70% of financial advisers have expressed doubts they can adhere to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of conduct as it currently exists....
Financial planning
In the aftermath of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority outlining its approach to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics, questions...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will start its first consultation on the Code of Ethics on 12 November....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....
Policy & Regulation
The Finance Sector Union is arguing that the existing financial services regulatory regime has been found wonting and that the Royal Commission needs to recommend impleme...
Financial planning
As the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority considers a new ethics standard for all advisers, the accounting sector reflects on industry change following the ...
Superannuation
Yesterday’s report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Life Insurance Inquiry reinforces the importance of the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Prac...
People & Products
The Financial Services Council and the Financial Ombudsman Service have appointed a former ASK risk specialist as chair of the Life Code Compliance Committee....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has said its role is to endorse, not enforce industry codes of conduct with enforcement being a role for industry ass...
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