REGULATION

Funds management

ASIC has consulted on addressing ‘sunsetting’ class orders on horse racing syndicates and horse breeding schemes....

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Financial planning

Product intervention powers are a step in the right direction for ASIC in dealing with complex financial products, the regulator believes....

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Financial planning

Deloitte Australia has today launched a new centre to assist financial services companies manage regulatory challenges across Asia Pacific....

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Accounting

IPA chief executive, Andrew Conway, is urging the Federal Government to take conclusive action regarding the Harper Review to achieve real competition policy reform....

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Tools & guides

Australian financial services laws do not foster crowd-sourced equity funding but market pressures might change this in 2016....

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Financial planning

Financial services lawyer, Peter Bobbin, warns that ASIC has neither the culture nor the expertise to handle a product intervention power....

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Financial planning

Constant regulatory changes such as FOFA and grandfathering have halted projects to enhance platforms, a financial firm said....

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Funds management

Australian fund managers developing products for the SIV market would need to cater their products to suit their low appetite for risk in their investments....

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Financial planning

Being bombarded by regulation changes meant advisers were yet to embrace improving client communication by adapting a customised mobile strategy....

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Financial planning

With the financial services sector undergoing an unprecedented amount of regulatory change a financial services executive and lawyer has launched a firm to give SMEs lega...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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