Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

ASIC signals that admin assistance to clients is not actually advice

Plenty of financial advisers provide administrative assistance to clients to help them with their investments but, according to the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Superannuation

Inquiry urged into insurer/super fund payments

The financial services regulators have been urged to closely scrutinise the financial relationships which exist between life insurers and superannuation fund trustees....

Policy & Regulation

Parliamentary scepticism on insurance co-regulation

The voluntary approach to industry self-regulation in the life insurance industry is not working and needs compulsion....

Policy & Regulation

New ASIC chairman signals agenda

The new chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton, has signalled a substantial continuation of the Medcraft agenda....