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Financial planning

The SMSF Association wants the Government to dump its limited licensing regime for accountants on the basis of it having failed to meet its objectives and having, instead...

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Financial planning

After two decades of stress and pressure from reforms, planners are now facing their own economic uncertainty as many will exit the industry in the new year, according to...

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Funds management

While wealth managers expected an improved year in 2020, their employees expected to be more stressed in the new year, according to a survey....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has announced a new organisational structure, including several new executive appointments....

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Policy & Regulation

High risk hedge funds are still under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but the regulator is refusing to reveal how it is going about its b...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found Port Phillip Publishing (PPP) and its former director Kristan Sayce liable for printing a misleading guide ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has increased investigations into wealth management by 216 per cent in the last six months....

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Policy & Regulation

Regtech companies have showcased the power of their technology at the ASIC Regtech Monitoring Financial Promotions symposium, to show the future of compliance....

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Policy & Regulation

A critical Government-commissioned review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority appears likely to see it adopting a more overtly forceful approach based on st...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has called on the Government to use a review of the Tax Practitioners Board to align and streamline the financial planner regulatory regime...

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioner’s Board has issued a warning that people who use unregistered tax agents do not receive safe harbour protections when things go wrong....

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Financial planning

Technical expert, Rob Lavery believes the 1 July changes allowing catch-up contributions have opened the way for astute tax management strategies....

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Funds management

Victoria’s new stamp duty laws will drive up costs for unlisted wholesale and retail property funds sector, according to the Property Funds Association....

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Superannuation

The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has reiterated her call for an end to the culture wars ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

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