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Policy & Regulation

The Morrison Government has reappointed Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chair, Wayne Byres, for five more years and committed $58.7 million of new fundi...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has declared to the Royal Commission that the debate over the removal of grandfathered commissions is now running out of control wit...

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Features

Anastasia Santoreneos writes that while FASEA and the Royal Commission have got advisers down in the short term, they are feeling positive about the future of the industr...

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Life/Risk

The Federal Government has been urged to drop the minimum age for automatic insurance cover inside superannuation to 21, rather than age 25....

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Policy & Regulation

ANZ’s full-year cash profit has taken a hit as it seeks to move beyond wealth remediation and costs associated with the Royal Commission....

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Life/Risk

The Australian Lawyers Alliance wants the Royal Commission to inject more transparency into insurance within superannuation to create awareness of sub-standard policy ter...

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Policy & Regulation

New research from Deloitte has revealed that, despite everything that has been heard at the Royal Commission, most people still trust their banks....

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Life/Risk

Plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn has labelled the Financial Services Council’s failed bid to have life/risk insurers allowed involvement in worker rehabilitation as ...

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Policy & Regulation

New Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton has vowed to eliminate the circumstances where the regulator can be perceived to have been ca...

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Policy & Regulation

SEEK data has shown that the Royal Commission has led to a direct increase in compliance and risk roles being mandated by clients across all sub-segments of the financial...

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Financial planning

The Royal Commission saw employment prospects in banking and insurance plummet more than any other sector for the September quarter, according to the Sunsuper Australian ...

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has accused the Government of caving into the retail banks and the wealth management sector in allowing ‘carve-outs’ from the design and distribu...

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Financial planning

Victims of Financial Fraud has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to remind him how vehemently the party objected to holding a Banking Royal Commission. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is moving to introduce legislation which will have the effect of doubling the criminal and civil penalties which can be imposed against both corpor...

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Features

In a year in which few sectors of financial services have avoided the eagle eye of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and his counsels assisting, Hannah Wootton investigates what...

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