REGULATION

Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has accused successive governments of providing “dozens of regulatory carve-outs … benefitting retail super providers ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds have no desire to become compulsory third parties to divorce proceedings....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled a Melbourne-based OTC derivative issuer’s licence and its former director has been banned. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services licence and credit licence of Financial Circle....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has charged a former Melbourne financial planner with 13 dishonesty offences....

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Policy & Regulation

Nearly 90 per cent of investors responding to a survey believe the Federal Opposition’s proposed removal of refundable franking credits will reduce their quality of life....

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Policy & Regulation

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Tim Wilson, will this Friday publicly compare the positions of WAM and ACOSS on Labor’s proposed franking di...

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Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission has asked ASIC why recent new senior level roles were all filled by internal candidates from a limited pool, amid questions about the regulators’ gov...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC chair, James Shipton, has come under fire from the Royal Commission, which seemed dissatisfied with how the regulator intended to prove its performance improves goin...

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Policy & Regulation

Authorised advisers need to make sure they’re on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register by the end of the year, before new professional standards take effect, or risk being t...

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Financial planning

The Finance Sector Union has called for the current move to professionalisation to be extended beyond just planners, but has warned that there are issues with an industry...

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Policy & Regulation

The frequent contact between ASIC commissioners and the chief executives and boards of the institutions they regulate is purely professional, ASIC’s chair has told the Ro...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...

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Policy & Regulation

A former Perth financial services representative has been banned from providing financial services following a Court conviction for four counts of stealing....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared that just because behaviour is lawful does not make it an excuse where consumer detriment is concerned....

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