PARLIAMENT

Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog is looking at its enforcement settings as priorities have changed but being an active litigant when needed is still on the table. ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds have confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that they have directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Industry Super Australia....

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Superannuation

Governments need to think carefully about embracing ideas that would be popular for the polls but would make lives worse, according to AustralianSuper chair, Don Russell....

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Financial planning

Plenty of financial advisers provide administrative assistance to clients to help them with their investments but, according to the Australian Securities and Investments ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has signaled to a Parliamentary Committee that further adjustments to the adviser code of ethics was possible beyond ...

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Financial planning

Affected clients will be among the first to know when licenses detect advisers who have done the wrong thing under new legislation to go before Parliament....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers looking for certainty around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetable are faced with the reality that Parliament is fast run...

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Superannuation

SuperConcepts has launched a campaign for Parliament to enshrine the objective of the super system, calling for both a legislated definition and a mechanism to ensure it’...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has called on politicians to put super fund members’ interests above politics in Parliament this week and debate and pass proposed laws to improv...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has not waited on passage of Government legislation and has, instead, set new prudential requirements to support an outcome...

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Policy & Regulation

Some of the Government’s most important superannuation policy legislation has remained stranded on the notice paper with Parliament rising until February and an election ...

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Superannuation

The AIST has welcomed an announcement from the Federal Opposition that it will move to amend key measures in the insurance in superannuation package now before Parliament...

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Superannuation

Despite suggestions it had shelved its push for majority independent directors on superannuation fund boards, the Government has made clear the issue remains very much al...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing that giving it product sales training intervention powers may reduce the need for it to take extreme actio...

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Policy & Regulation

A Parliamentary Committee has been told that public servants working within the Australian Securities and Investments Commission are eligible to earn bonuses, but at leas...

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

2 days 8 hours ago
JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

2 days 9 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 3 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 3 weeks ago