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Financial planning
Replacing the term ‘general advice’ represents a positive step but it may need to be replaced by multiple terms and arrangements, according to the Australian Securities a...
Financial planning
The organisation representing self-managed superannuation fund victims of the Trio/Astarra collapse have called on the Government to initiate a Serious Financial Crime Ta...
Policy & Regulation
In the midst of a Productivity Commission inquiry into competition in financial services, the Government has proposed measures to make the Australian Securities and Inves...
Policy & Regulation
The Government has announced its candidate for a second deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on the same day it introduced a bill to creat...
Superannuation
The financial services regulators have been urged to closely scrutinise the financial relationships which exist between life insurers and superannuation fund trustees....
Life/Risk
A key Parliamentary Committee has urged strong scrutiny of past and present insurance Approved Product Lists and move to fully open APLs....
Editorial
As key players in recent outcomes in the financial services industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Author...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Productivity Commission that ASIC’s MoneySmart website had skewed consumer expectations by suggesting simple advice can...
Life/Risk
TAL has offered refunds totalling $900,000 to 1,200 funeral insurance customers after reporting to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that it failed to ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has told the Productivity Commission that product manufacturers should no longer enjoy the licensing exemption which allows them to giv...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is investigating whether planners recommended super choice over MySuper to protect their trailing co...
Financial planning
Repeated instances of bad advice made it necessary for the Government to create the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime, according to the Minister for...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled a push to extend financial services professionalism beyond financial planners....
Policy & Regulation
The Government will pass legislation to create a second deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Financial planning
A senior Australian Securities and Investments Commission executive has confirmed the likelihood of the regulator examining financial advice provided by industry funds, b...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...