COMPLIANCE

The ATO has been told to work with stakeholders, including industry funds, to overcome employer superannuation guarantee non-compliance....

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Financial planning

ASIC has acknowledged that newspapers headlines were wrong about planners taking big commissions to recommend residential property investments and that not one planner co...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants the Government to consider allowing ASIC the ability to pursue companies and officers over misdeeds caused by bad culture....

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Funds management

Fear must be a greater factor than greed in influencing better standards of behaviour in the financial services industry, according to ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft....

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Financial planning

ASIC refuses a planning firm permission to tailor how its planners’ remuneration and bonuses are revealed to clients....

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Financial planning

ASIC and the Federal Treasury have been told to get real about the time needed to implement significant legislative and regulatory change in financial services....

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Financial planning

Proposals canvassed for measuring the performance and value for money provided by ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC....

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Policy & Regulation

An international expert questions in whose interests the regulators are really working for....

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Funds management

ASIC confirms a continuing focus on FX trading businesses and the existence of several investigations....

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Editorial

Is the Trade Union Royal Commission right in pointing to a money link between industry funds and trade unions?...

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Financial planning

The CFA Institute urges an oath-based approach as it tells Treasury you can’t regulate against bad ethics....

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Financial planning

APRA chairman, Wayne Byres, has reminded banks to maintain appropriate standards with respect to mortgage lending amid the current house price boom....

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Financial planning

Next Tuesday’s Federal Budget is expected to put in motion ASIC’s transition to a user-pays funding regime....

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Financial planning

ASIC has moved to issue a Regulatory Guide based on the recent remediation exercises flowing from major planning failures....

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Financial planning

The AFA acknowledges that the approach outlined by the FPA on Trowbridge accords very closely with its own but deadlines remain the issue....

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