regulation

Policy & Regulation

Life insurer claims data provision made mandatory

Life insurance companies are now under a legal obligation to provide consistent data on claims and disputes to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Aust...

Financial planning

Advice carve-outs undermine RC findings, says ISA

Industry Super Australia has accused the Government of caving into the retail banks and the wealth management sector in allowing ‘carve-outs’ from the design and distribu...

Policy & Regulation

New research counters Labor’s negative gearing claims

New research commissioned by building industry group, Master Builders Australia has pointed to significant economic damage resulting from the Federal Opposition’s policie...

Features

Financial services take to the stand

In a year in which few sectors of financial services have avoided the eagle eye of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and his counsels assisting, Hannah Wootton investigates what...

Features

More planner compliance paperwork looms

Mike Taylor writes that planners should brace themselves for the additional compliance burden resulting from the looming passage of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Design an...

Policy & Regulation

Poor breach reporting a lead indicator for ASIC embedding

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled that financial institutions with a poor breach reporting record are likely to find themselves dealing w...

SMSF

SMSF policy changes put pressure onto trust deed updates

Following a period of significant change for self-managed superannuation fund policy, trustees and their advisers should remember to review trust deeds, weathdigital has ...

Policy & Regulation

ACCC identifies as fin services ‘competition champion’

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told a key parliamentary committee it is funded and empowered to be the financial services “competition champion”....

Policy & Regulation

Australian open banking at “significant risk,” Trade Ledger says

The global corporate lending platform has warned the Federal Government of substantial weaknesses in its proposed Open Banking implementation plan....

Policy & Regulation

Warning on tax changes to international capital

The Federal Government has been warned of unintended consequences flowing from its plans to impose a 30 per cent withholding tax on international capital in the property ...

Superannuation

Super funds baulk at operational risk reserving

Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...

Policy & Regulation

Industry funds urge comparability on member switching

Industry superannuation funds are urging the imposition of greater comparability around fees, costs and performance to give transparency around advisers switching members...

Policy & Regulation

Industry funds at risk from Labor policy

New analysis suggests that Labor’s proposed changes to dividend imputation could have unintended consequences extending well beyond SMSFs to industry and retail superannu...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC provides relief on ETF short-selling

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided legislative relief that will allow exchange-traded fund market makers to make named short sales in ETF a...