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Senior executives should face civil penalties of up to $1 million if they breach the Financial Accountability Regime, according to consumer advocacy group CHOICE....

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Features

Laura Dew writes the BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge fund is one of the few Australian equity funds outperforming the market in these turbulent times....

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Policy & Regulation

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

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Financial planning

The authority has increased the bank’s capital requirement to $1 billion and will focus on directors and senior managers that breached the Banking Act in relation to the ...

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Policy & Regulation

A critical Government-commissioned review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority appears likely to see it adopting a more overtly forceful approach based on st...

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People & Products

Mercer has appointed senior executive Paul Giles to the role of senior client manager, responsible for large industry and public sector clients....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman, Wayne Byers, has signalled a stronger approach on the Bank Executive Accountability Regime, including post-vestin...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have already been identified as major funding winners from next mo...

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Policy & Regulation

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton has signalled his intention to subject his own executives to the same terms and conditions as the...

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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...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has admitted the effectiveness of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime is owed in large part to the amount of deferred ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has warned the major banks against using board seats as a retirement sinecure, pointing to the Government’s willingness to fully exe...

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Financial planning

The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has admitted to making a political mistake in not acting sooner to call the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superann...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has focused its Bank Executive Accountability Regime on the four big banks, giving smaller institutions an extra year plus more flexibility....

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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