The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has not waited on passage of Government legislation and has, instead, set new prudential requirements to support an outcome...
The Law Council of Australia has urged the Government that it needs to amend proposed new financial product design and distribution laws to exclude intervention in produc...
A key Senate Committee has been told that the Government’s new Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention powers risk putting advisers in conflict with ...
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
A professional year supervisor has been banned for five years after advice provided by his provisional relevant provider was deemed to be inappropriate, the first time th...
WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...