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Financial planning

There were six main areas the corporate watchdog focused on which led to a $16.5 million increase in costs of regulating the financial advice sector....

Policy & Regulation

Want the ASIC levy decreased? Lobby Josh Frydenberg

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged members to directly lobby the Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg if they want ASIC’s proposed levy increase reduced....

Policy & Regulation

APRA gives major banks some levy lee-way

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has granted the major banks some lee-way around the obligations to the Government’s new major banks levy....

Financial planning

Advice, super sector faces ASIC levies

The financial advice sector will be slapped with a fixed levy of $1,500 under ASIC’s cost recovery framework, while super trustees will face a 'graduate component' based ...

Editorial

ASIC wins the EDR debate but at whose cost?

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission was fundamental to the changes being wrought on the financial services external dispute resol...

Financial planning

Raising advice bar may reduce ASIC levy

Advice practices that implement the new professional and ethical standards and improve financial advice standards could eventually have to pay less levy to fund ASIC. ...