The Federal Government has committed to a timetable to ending grandfathering and to entertaining life/risk commissions being further reduced....

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has sent a clear signal to the financial services regulators that he supports the view that they don’t need more powers and should ...

The Federal Government has appointed the Productivity Commission deputy chair, Karen Chester as the replacement for Peter Kell as deputy chair of the Australian Securitie...

Rather than increasing funding to the regulators the Government should be pursuing a last resort compensation scheme, according to the Victims of Financial Fraud group....

The Federal Government is proposing to increase the value limit of products in employee share schemes that can be offered in a 12-month period from $5,000 to $10,000 per ...

The Federal Senate will this week consider the controversial amendment to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act first proposed by the then-Treasurer Scott Morriso...

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has made clear the Government will opt for retirement income certainty rather than the superannuation guarantee recommendations of ...

Victims of Financial Fraud has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to remind him how vehemently the party objected to holding a Banking Royal Commission. ...

The Federal Treasurer has reinforced that he wants the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to take a tougher approach in pursuing litigation rather than nego...

The Federal Government is moving to introduce legislation which will have the effect of doubling the criminal and civil penalties which can be imposed against both corpor...

Financial services licensees rather than individual planners are facing the most change likely to result from the preliminary findings of the Royal Commission into Miscon...

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has cited fees for no service and the failures of the regulators as being among his Royal Commission take-outs....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been formally legislatively uncoupled from the Australian Public Service, allowing it to employ people on competi...

Peter Kell has resigned as deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, effective from 6 December, this year, following seven years of service at...