REGULATION

Superannuation

ASIC is reminding product issuers that as part of their implementation of Protecting Your Super Package, they need to take care that, from 1 July 2019, Product Disclosure...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s decision to impose new licensing conditions on AMP’s superannuation businesses could not have come at a worse time, with ...

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Policy & Regulation

Liquidators should pay heed to a decision from the Federal Court to fix the remuneration of the liquidators of three Adelaide companies at $3.9 million, compared to the $...

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Features

As the Australian Securities and Investments Commission shifts to a ‘why not litigate’ approach to pursuing breaches of financial services and corporate law, Hannah Woott...

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Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has done much post-Royal Commission chest-beating about pursuing litigation but it needs to translate that tough talk...

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Life/Risk

Super funds could face legal problems once group insurance for inactive accounts is switched off on 1 July, as members who were unaware they were losing their cover may s...

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Life/Risk

Australians are at risk of losing their life insurance cover when superannuation changes come into effect in July, as AIA Australia, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporati...

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Accounting

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has rejected an application by a former tax agent to stay a Tax Practitioners Board decision to terminate his registration with the ma...

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Financial planning

Fitch Ratings believes that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority proposals could slightly raise risk within mortgage portfolios where borrowers are granted mort...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....

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Superannuation

Research revealing how alarmingly little consumers know about their super funds’ performance has strengthened calls for the Government and industry to provide an easy-to-...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a Sydney man, formerly an adviser at Kaz Capital, from providing financial services for six years....

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Policy & Regulation

Even though the Federal Election had already been called, the Senate Economics Legislation Committee has vetoed a One Nation bill which would have ended financial service...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by imposing a penalty on HostPlus based on the commercial links and consequent service agreemen...

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Policy & Regulation

The Institute of Public Accountants has continued its defence of tax advice fees, arguing the move is unjustified and that the underlying data has been inappropriately us...

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