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A superannuation fund industry survey has revealed most believe that SMSFs should be regulated by APRA....

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Superannuation

The ACTU has denied a conflict of interest may exist where unions receive payment from industry super funds when union officials serve on their trustee boards....

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Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer has expressed concern at newspaper reports that union officials received $5.4 million in director fees from industry funds....

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Superannuation

The Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer, has released the exposure draft of key legislation aimed at opening up default fund choices....

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Policy & Regulation

The ATO confirms it has visited seven adviser firms and has obtained more than 5,000 client names from wealth management firms....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has emerged with a win as the NSW Supreme Court awards $300,000 in damages to a senior executive who successfully pursued an advice-related defamati...

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Editorial

The Financial Services Council’s Blake Briggs argues that the Government’s changes to super fund governance arrangements and default funds will ultimately help consumers....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has cancelled insurance broker, Leedam’s AFSL a month after its sole director was banned from providing financial services....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government intends reconstituting the Financial Sector Advisory Council but will planners get a voice?...

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Financial planning

A new e-book analysing mistakes within SOAs identifies failings around identifying what is really in a client’s best interests....

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Policy & Regulation

Australian Capital Markets' parent company, Formax International, gets rap over knuckles from ASIC over misleading interpretation of ACM AFSL suspension....

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Policy & Regulation

ANZ will pay approximately $13 million in compensation after failing to accurately apply bonus interest to customers’ Progress Saver Accounts for a number of years. ...

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Life/Risk

Life/risk advisers urged to get their paperwork in order if they want to ensure grandfathered arrangements under the new Life Insurance Framework....

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Superannuation

Labor Senators Sam Dastyari and Chris Ketter have attacked APRA’s Helen Rowell over her speech supporting the Government’s super governance changes....

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Superannuation

The Government’s changes to superannuation governance have had sign-off from the majority of the Senate Economics Committee....

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