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...
Life insurance companies are now under a legal obligation to provide consistent data on claims and disputes to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Aust...
Victims of Financial Fraud has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to remind him how vehemently the party objected to holding a Banking Royal Commission. ...
Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has slammed the industry regulators for failing to sufficiently punish...
Financial services licensees rather than individual planners are facing the most change likely to result from the preliminary findings of the Royal Commission into Miscon...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been formally legislatively uncoupled from the Australian Public Service, allowing it to employ people on competi...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has pointed to multiple instances where lower level bank employees have suffered pay cuts related to failures, but their ex...
The Royal Commission has been told that the AMP Super trustee had little or no knowledge of what AMP advisers were doing in relation to recommending superannuation produc...
In an effort to strengthen the regulator, the Turnbull Government has nominated Treasury veteran John Lonsdale to fill a newly created second deputy chair role at the Aus...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has told the Productivity Commission it needs more powers and that its lack of powers has inhibited its ability to b...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has backed life insurers playing a greater role in injured worker rehabilitation subject to a unified approach with other i...
The Productivity Commission has been warned that both its methodology and attitude to self-managed superannuation funds may have opened the sector to attack from other el...
The new Australian Financial Complaints Authority will kick off with a staff of around 550 people with the industry providing funding based on an APRA-style levy....
Class Limited has highlighted what it describes as significant SMSF gaps in the Productivity Commission's Superannuation Report and said is performing its own analysis to...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...