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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against imposing another layer of regulation and cost on financial advise...

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Policy & Regulation

Litigation funders, lawyers and even the ACCC are warning a key Parliamentary that the imposition of licensing and oversight by the Australian Securities and Investment C...

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Policy & Regulation

There is an “overall lack of price transparency” in the interest rates of residential mortgage products, according to the interim findings of a report into home loans by ...

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Policy & Regulation

The development of innovative self-service financial planning tools would be a result of extending the Consumer Data Right to super and pensions....

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Policy & Regulation

A critical Government-commissioned review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority appears likely to see it adopting a more overtly forceful approach based on st...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has cleared the way for exiting its self-employed adviser ‘Pathways’ franchise following issues initially notified to the Australian Competition and...

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People & Products

Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chair Peter Kell is joining a panel on licensee reporting set up by Adviser Ratings....

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Superannuation

A new analysis of merger and acquisition activity has pointed to higher activity levels on the part of superannuation funds....

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Policy & Regulation

Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Professor Alan Fels has criticised the Royal Commission for failing to address the problems of bank vertic...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told a key parliamentary committee it is funded and empowered to be the financial services “competition champion”....

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Outsider

And as the sun slowly fades into the west ... Outsider notes the impending departure of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chairman, Peter Kell....

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Policy & Regulation

The Productivity Commission has recommended that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission take on the role of “competition champion for the financial system”....

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Features

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been the frequent subject of demands for greater scrutiny of the regulators themselves. As Hannah Wootton writes,...

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Policy & Regulation

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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Policy & Regulation

The competition regulator said it expects the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to lay criminal cartel charges against ANZ and the bank’s group treasurer Rick ...

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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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

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