ASIC

Financial planning

The corporate watchdog’s guidance on the scope of civil penalty provisions and what may amount to trivial breaches does not provide sufficient objectivity to assist licen...

Funds management

The corporate regulator has removed a barrier to entry for offshore market-making entities wanting to participate in the Australian exchange traded fund market....

Superannuation

A second stage as part of the super test benchmark is needed to avoid relying on automation which could create issues similar to that of the Robodebt saga, according to t...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator says implementation of the compensation scheme of last resort has been delayed due to budgetary reasons....

Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog is looking at its enforcement settings as priorities have changed but being an active litigant when needed is still on the table. ...

Financial planning

The decrease in adviser roles number this week was almost twice as many as the loss of actual advisers at 100 and 53, respectively, due to double authorisations, accordin...

Financial planning

Permanently banned former financial adviser, Robert Hutchison, failed to appear at an Administrative Appeals Tribunal directions hearing....

Financial planning

While a fixed-term fee agreement is a valid alternative for advisers finding difficulty in the ongoing fee arrangement requirements, they need to ensure their fee chargin...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has clarified in its guidance that it does not have any powers to give exemptions or modifications and has clarified fixed-term definitions....

Financial planning

Career break is unlikely to be a reason to give relief on professional standards, according to guidance from the corporate regulator, and an industry association has call...

Policy & Regulation

Foreign financial services providers will continue to have relief from holding an Australian financial service licence as the deadline has been extended to 31 March, 2023...

Features

Oksana Patron writes that revised adviser number forecasts are shining a new light on the adviser exodus and how it will affect different adviser roles....

Financial planning

To avoid any uncertainty over the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam scheduling next year, advisers should only take the ‘career break’ option as a las...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told Parliament it would “likely be difficult” for it to move to a faults-based framework as proposed in the late...

Superannuation

Changes to disclosure measures under the Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No.1) Bill could be a “green light for more reckless behaviour”, according to the Australi...

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