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Financial planning

The FSC has called for a statute of limitations on group disability claims to help stabilise premium pricing....

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Accounting

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is pushing all taxpayers with offshore assets to declare their interests before it starts a global clampdown on tax evasion....

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....

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Financial planning

ANZ has agreed to send out gift cards to income protection insurance customers after ASIC concerns....

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Financial planning

ASIC frustrated that the penalty regime imposed is less than the profit companies gain from poor behaviour, and that disclosure is no longer a 'disinfectant’ for law-brea...

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Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey announces four business members for the Financial System Inquiry advisory panel....

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Policy & Regulation

Cormann signals FOFA reform fight....

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Financial planning

Australia’s corporate regulator is severely limited in the range and severity of penalties it can hand out for wrongdoing - particularly compared to the US and UK, a revi...

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Accounting

ICAA welcomes Government’s Cutting Red Tape website....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator welcomes FOS’ focus on timeliness, but makes no mention of long-term structural change....

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Financial planning

The head of the Commonwealth Bank has denied poor organisational culture is to blame for the events that led to a number of its planners being banned by the industry’s re...

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Superannuation

New legislation has lifted the penalty regime around illegal early release super schemes....

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will have stewardship of the SuperStream gateway network for two years, the Treasury has said. ...

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Financial planning

The FPA warns the Government some FOFA amendments could re-introduce commissions into the advice space and increase the risk of mis-selling. ...

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia worries that changes to FOFA will bring conflicted remuneration back to financial advice....

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