APRA
Editorial
Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...
Life/Risk
New APRA draft places expectations on group insurers about how they handle claims....
Superannuation
An industry body representing SMSFs has rejected the idea of the sector being regulated by APRA, claiming the current framework is sufficient....
Superannuation
The SMSF sector showed solid asset growth in the three months to 30 September 2013, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia. ...
Superannuation
The new super contribution level has pushed employer contributions to record levels and will spur asset managers to seek greater efficiencies....
Financial planning
The Auditor-General suggests APRA should consult more and give greater detail about financial sector levies....
Superannuation
Assistant Treasurer, Senator Arthur Sinodinos says APRA is examining whether super funds investment in a new publishing venture breaches the sole purpose test....
Superannuation
The notion that self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should have a 'competency test' as suggested by visiting European financial literacy specialist Robert Holzmann ha...
Superannuation
Warning self-managed super funds (SMSFs) that they are not entitled to compensation is too “simplistic” and needs to factor in all financial assistance available....
Life/Risk
APRA’s September quarter data confirms continuing challenges for insurers, particularly with respect to group risk....
Editorial
'Does ASIC have the power and the resources to fulfil its task as corporate watchdog?' is the question the Australian Senate is asking as part of its review of the regula...
Superannuation
SMSF regulation should be handed to APRA instead of the ATO, according to a Super Review/Money Management roundtable....
Editorial
Australia’s two key financial services regulators, ASIC and APRA have moved a step closer to concluding their actions around the collapse of Trio/Astarra and, in doing so...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...
Superannuation
Shorten’s proposed Council of Super Guardians still-born despite expenditure on a charter group....
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Podcast
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...