REGULATION

Policy & Regulation

The Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission have each entered agreements with ASIC to cooperate and und...

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Superannuation

The conflicted nature of advice fees deducted from the accounts of members of bank-owned superannuation funds have been brought into question by a former member of the Su...

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Policy & Regulation

The director of now closed Dover Financial Planning, Terry McMaster, has written a series of articles defending his position and questioning the motivations and approach ...

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Superannuation

The Government has released draft legislation to exempt some older Australians with low super balances from the work test. ...

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Financial planning

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has highlighted a toxic sales culture and a failure to regulate wrongd...

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Policy & Regulation

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....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry Super Australia has reportedly pulled its ‘fox in the henhouse’ advertising just weeks after funding was questioned during the Royal Commission into Misconduct i...

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Life/Risk

Industry superannuation fund REST has filed a breach report with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after admitting to failings during the Royal Commiss...

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office will start issuing excess transfer balance cap determinations to taxpayers with over $1.6 million in their super in the pension phase....

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Policy & Regulation

The Alliance for a Fairer Retirement System has backed the government inquiry into Labor’s proposal to scrap refundable franking credits....

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Policy & Regulation

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

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Policy & Regulation

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...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg says he believes the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has a case to answer for the issues raised in the Royal Commi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has forecast a ‘new competitive dynamic’ in the wake of the banks divesting their insurance and wealth management bus...

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