ROYAL COMMISSION

Policy & Regulation

The Government may have sought to use Parliamentary committee scrutiny of the big banks to avoid holding a Royal Commission but now that same committee intends to test th...

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Financial planning

The SMSF Association chairman, Andrew Gale has warned that large superannuation funds may try to draw self managed superannuation funds into the scope of the Royal Commis...

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Policy & Regulation

The Finance Sector Union has welcomed Kenneth Hayne’s declaration that non-disclosure and employment agreements will not gag employees before the Royal Commission, saying...

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Policy & Regulation

The Finance Sector Union has called on banks to allow their employees to communicate with the Royal Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

Amid industry superannuation funds having received letters from the Royal Commission, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has attacked the ‘sip...

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Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry will kick off its public hearings on Monday, 12 February....

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Policy & Regulation

Money Management has confirmed that a number of the major life insurers received letters for the Royal Commission into alleged misconduct in Australia’s banking superannu...

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation funds and other financial services organisations will have to account for the decade starting 1 January, 2008, as they seek to address pointed questioning ...

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Superannuation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has asked the 17 industry funds responsible for the ‘compare the pair’...

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Superannuation

A new survey has revealed how super fund executives and trustees were keen for a Royal Commission into banking and financial services but less keen for it to scrutinise s...

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Superannuation

The terms of reference for the Royal Commission into the Banking Superannuation and Financial Services industry have placed the superannuation fund sole purpose test firm...

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Policy & Regulation

A dissenting report by Labor members of a key Parliamentary Committee has revealed how a future Labor Government might extend the terms of reference of the Royal Commissi...

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Policy & Regulation

The implications of the Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services Industry are such that the Government should shelve plans to establish the Australian Fin...

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Financial planning

The real objectives of the Government’s Banking and Financial Services Royal Commission have been revealed in its draft terms of reference...

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Policy & Regulation

The Finance Sector Union has backed measures like the Sedgewick Inquiry and the Bank Executive Accountability Regime but argues that only a Royal Commission will really w...

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