conflicted remuneration

Policy & Regulation

Hume calls for FASEA extension to return to business

Senator Jane Hume has called on the Labor Party to enable the FASEA extension to return to business after a ruling yesterday on listed investment companies. ...

Policy & Regulation

FPA welcomes LIC stamping fee extension

It has now called on the Senate to pass the FASEA extension bill, now that the Government has removed the exemption that allows stamping fees on listed investment entitie...

Policy & Regulation

LIC stamping fee exemption to be extended

The ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies will be extended following a consultation by the Treasury, removing an impediment to the FASEA exam exte...

Financial planning

Banks urged to show leniency on grandfathering loans

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged banks who loaned money to advisers to buy books of clients to show leniency....

Superannuation

Suncorp to defend class action over fees

Conflicted fees are once again a hot legal topic, with Suncorp being hit with a class action in the New South Wales Supreme Court over superannuation commissions paid to ...

Policy & Regulation

RC missed mark on vertical integration says Fels

Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Professor Alan Fels has criticised the Royal Commission for failing to address the problems of bank vertic...