COMPLIANCE

Superannuation

Superannuation funds have strongly queried whether people who supply super funds should be excluded from being deemed “independent” for three years....

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Financial planning

Macquarie has completed its Enforceable Undertaking with ASIC but its compliance bill has quadrupled to $413 million and is forecast to continue rising....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the reporting of breaches needs to be accepted as not only a legal obligation but part and parcel of running a financial services company. ...

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Superannuation

Former CommInsure managing director, Peter Beck, has won a 10-year legal battle with the Commonwealth Bank over his multi-million dollar defined benefit pension entitleme...

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Policy & Regulation

Specialist lawyer calls for scrapping of key financial services laws that are outmoded and product-focused....

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Financial planning

Yesterday’s appearance of IOOF chief executive, Chris Kelaher, before a Senate Committee has fuelled calls for a Royal Commission into financial planning....

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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed it has the big institutions still under close scrutiny over their handling of financial market benchmarks such as the Bank Bill Swap Rate....

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Accounting

Two of the key accounting bodies, CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and NZ are fighting it out in the NZ High Court over allegations of professional denig...

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Financial planning

Select Asset Management CIO and Trio/Astarra whistle-blower, Dominic McCormick has written a scathing assessment of recent reports around IOOF and criticised the emerging...

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Life/Risk

Specialist lawyer, Ian McDermott warns that licensees may be left carrying the can on claw-backs if advisers change dealer groups mid-stream....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has made clear that bank executives will be just as exposed as union officials to the Government’s proposed super fund gove...

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Financial planning

With the financial services sector undergoing an unprecedented amount of regulatory change a financial services executive and lawyer has launched a firm to give SMEs lega...

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Policy & Regulation

An Auditor-General’s report has revealed that if you’ve received a CGT letter from the ATO, it may well be wide of the market and have missed your share dealings....

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Superannuation

The Government has released exposure draft legislation which would impose at least one third independent directors plus an independent chairman on industry fund boards....

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Financial planning

IOOF managing director, Chris Kelaher, says it's mischievous to link the allegations against IOOF to planners or financial advice....

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