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The FSC has called for a statute of limitations on group disability claims to help stabilise premium pricing....
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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....
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”....
Financial planning
ANZ has agreed to send out gift cards to income protection insurance customers after ASIC concerns....
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...
Financial planning
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey announces four business members for the Financial System Inquiry advisory panel....
Policy & Regulation
Cormann signals FOFA reform fight....
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...
Accounting
ICAA welcomes Government’s Cutting Red Tape website....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator welcomes FOS’ focus on timeliness, but makes no mention of long-term structural change....
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...
Superannuation
New legislation has lifted the penalty regime around illegal early release super schemes....
Superannuation
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will have stewardship of the SuperStream gateway network for two years, the Treasury has said. ...
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. ...
Financial planning
Industry Super Australia worries that changes to FOFA will bring conflicted remuneration back to financial advice....
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....