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Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has claimed it is retiree battlers who will suffer most under the Federal Opposition’s proposed changes to dividend imputation....

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The Government has released draft legislation on a package of technical amendments to ensure the new system for attribution managed investment trusts operates as intended...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by pursuing a civil case against Westpac as the licensee of a miscreant and now banned adviser....

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The Federal Treasury has told the Royal Commission that industry self-regulation may fall short if industry codes of practice are neither uniform nor unenforceable....

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The Federal Government has released the first tranche of the Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Bill for public consultation....

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There have been new calls for greater transparency around how the financial services regulators are spending the levies extracted from the industry....

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The Opposition’s proposed negative gearing reforms could adversely impact some geographic areas more than others if a blanket approach is taken towards their implementati...

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Wilsons Advisory and Stockbroking Limited has been fined $35,000 for infringing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Market Integrity Rules. ...

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Industry bodies are calling on the Attorney-General to take action on financial abuse. ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a former National Australia Bank adviser. ...

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Banks and others were taking up to four years to deal with breach reports but the Royal Commission has caused a shake-up, generating a 39 per cent spike....

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Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, ANZ, and a number of their senior executives have been charged with criminal cartel offences, after an investigation by the Australian Competiti...

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