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Policy & Regulation

To be effective, the Financial Regulator Oversight Authority needs to be allowed to assess particular actions, or group of actions, to properly assess the two financial r...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released its new regulatory framework for foreign financial services providers who are providing services to Austr...

Financial planning

The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....

Superannuation

The proposed legislation could motivate advisers to enter into ongoing fee arrangements with superannuation members, according to a super body. ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants managers of advice licensees subjected to the same reference-checking protocols as advisers in circumstances where it says it has...

Financial planning

Firms looking to structure its group purchasing arrangements should look to alternatives as the group purchasing body relief might be replaced soon....

Policy & Regulation

Licensees work hard for the stamping fees they are paid and should be entitled to keep them, according to Investment Collective managing director, David French....

Editorial

The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...

Expert Analysis

The financial planning profession is on the cusp of a major growth trajectory as planners and professional associations unite to secure its future, writes Dante De Gori....

Expert Analysis

The implementation of design and distribution obligations to the Australian financial services industry will bring with it a range of new challenges but, as Mikkel Bates ...

Financial planning

Planner group, the Profession of Independent Financial Advisers wants a clearer banning of asset-based fees and an updating of Australian Securities and Investment Commis...

Policy & Regulation

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

Policy & Regulation

The audit industry has been delivered a reasonably favourable assessment by a key Parliamentary Committee because the Australian Securities and Investments Commission sai...

Policy & Regulation

Over-the-counter derivative issuers AGM Markets, OT Markets and Ozifin Tech have been found by the Federal Court to have engaged in systemic and unconscionable conduct, c...

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