Proposed ASIC class order changes to fees and costs disclosure are so opaque one industry group has called for whiteboards and an industry roundtable to dissect them....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants access to a penalty regime which can be scaled to fit the magnitude of crimes....

The stockbroking industry should not be targeted in ASIC’s cost recovery program as most complaints are against financial planners. ...

The Financial Services Council has pointed to the number of employers who want to do the right thing with regard to women's retirement incomes equity but are stymied by i...

Spring FG has denied any direct links to a planner permanently banned by ASIC....

The FPA supports user-pays funding for ASIC but only if it is equitable across the industry....

The Government has been asked whether women are being appropriately represented on the boards of industry super funds....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that bank planners and vertical integration are on the enforcement agenda for 2015/16....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has dropped the requirement that key superannuation board committees need to have a majority of independent directors....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s new reporting standards for super funds confirm continuing bureaucratic life for planner trailing commissions....

The industry funds’ “compare the pair” advertising campaign was the catalyst for removal of commissions and, as Mike Taylor writes, the advent of FOFA and now its underly...

APRA has stated it sees no sizeable problems around the funding of Industry Super Australia and its lobbying efforts against Government Budget measures....

ASIC has issued a harsh assessment of how lenders are handling interest-only loans reminiscent of its critical analysis of life/risk advice arrangements....

The Federal Government has made changes to its legislation on superannuation fund trustee board governance but not enough to quieten all the industry fund critics....