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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against imposing another layer of regulation and cost on financial advise...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants the Government to commission the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to monitor the escalating costs of practicing a...

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry is in danger of being strangled by regulatory over-reach, according to the independent chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Mi...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has cautioned against extending the so-called regulatory sandbox towards superannuation and holistic advice....

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Funds management

ASIC has released new and updated guidance for the funds management industry for consultation to reduce regulatory burden....

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Policy & Regulation

The government has announced the appointment of a new ASIC chair for a five-year period, effective from 1 February next year....

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Policy & Regulation

Determinations by the Government’s new Australian Financial Complaints Authority should be open to appeal to the courts, according to a submission received by the Senate ...

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Policy & Regulation

The big four banks have agreed to specific contractual changes with ASIC to eliminate unfair terms from their agreements....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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Financial planning

Disappointing results from ASIC’s inspection of audits by audit firms have led the corporate regulator to urge audit firms to find new and revised strategies to improve a...

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Features

Advisers might be keeping pace with technology, but are they on top of the regulation that goes with it? Hope William-Smith finds out....

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioners Board has released guidance to assist tax professionals to understand their legal obligations around cloud computing....

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Features

Hugh Young looks at how regulatory and technological change will shape demands for more productive investments....

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