ASIC has been told there needs to be greater clarity between what represents a ‘fee’ and a ‘cost’ in Product Disclosure Statements....
AustralianSuper has joined a growing list of supporters for a MyPension product....
The financial services sector needs a new ASIC commissioner specifically to deal with international regulatory issues....
Strong performances by boutique partners have seen Treasury Group’s FUM rise by 49 per cent in the last financial year....
The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....
The FSC is pressing the Goverment to form a financial services export coordination body....
Treasury Group announces merger transaction with US-based multi-boutique, Northern Lights....
The Government has launched a review of post-retirement products with a Treasury paper acknowledging current rules are imposing limitations. ...
Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....
Draft proposals to waive the tax and commercial law course requirements for registration under the TASA are being welcomed by the AFA....
The draft Tax Agent Services Act regulations have proposed waiving tax and commercial law course requirements for financial planners with relevant experience....
ASIC, Treasury and the TPB have been urged to ensure the harmonisation of the standards applied to advisers....
The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...
Claims that tax concessions on superannuation will cost the Government $2 trillion a year are based on inaccurate figures and assumptions the Association of Superannuatio...
The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...