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The Financial Services Council has called on the Government to finally act on tax relief allowing consumers to be rolled out of legacy financial products....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled using its new directions power in the face of the slow response of AMP and the major banks to follow-up...

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The Government has announced a review of the Tax Practitioners Board....

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Consumer group Choice wants the Federal Government to fund a Royal Commission rectification taskforce and, furthermore, it wants recognition as a key stakeholder in imple...

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The Federal Government has flagged key legislative changes around the taxation treatment of market-linked pensions and death benefits....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed that some of the referrals made to it by the Royal Commission relate to conduct which, at the time it oc...

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The Tax Institute has pointed to the 2009 Henry Tax Review as still being relevant to moving Australia from its heavy reliance on personal income taxes....

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ASIC has engaged UNSW to survey Australian fund managers that may be impacted by the European Union’s MiFID II rules, noting that the regulations may become an unofficial...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned director of Foster Stockbroking, Mark Joseph Hinsley, from providing financial services for three years. ...

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The Institute of Actuaries has urged the Government to consider imposing a dollar cap on the value of the family home that is exempt from the Age Pension means test....

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ASIC has banned a second director of managed discretionary account provider, Jade Capital, Matthew McCrow....

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The banks should offer customers independent advice on remediation or risk both a “relentless flow” of class actions and a widening trust deficit....

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