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Mortgage brokers will find themselves dealing with a similar environment to financial advisers under new legislation passed by the Parliament stemming from the Royal Comm...

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The Australian Financial Complaints Authority wants any new compensation scheme of last resort to cover the whole industry, including Managed Investment Schemes, and to b...

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The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended the licenses of Theta Asset Management and Valuestream Investment Management, both in external administ...

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Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

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Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

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The Federal Government has been accused of pandering to the big banks and reneging on the recommendations of the Royal Commission by pursuing new legislation to alter def...

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Durand Oliver has been appointed as distribution manager to the independent platform provider....

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Self-Managed Superannuation Funds should be exempted from the Government’s new design and distribution regime because they are not like other financial products, accordin...

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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is noting only three members of its executive team following the departure of its chief executive officer, Colin Chri...

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Advisers and their clients should retain control of opt-in arrangements and there should be flexibility for low fee-paying clients with less frequent interactions, accord...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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