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Superannuation

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...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Financial planning

Victims of Financial Fraud has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to remind him how vehemently the party objected to holding a Banking Royal Commission. ...

Superannuation

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...

Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has slammed the industry regulators for failing to sufficiently punish...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been formally legislatively uncoupled from the Australian Public Service, allowing it to employ people on competi...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Financial planning

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...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Life/Risk

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...

Superannuation

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...

Policy & Regulation

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....

Superannuation

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...

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