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The Government has been asked whether women are being appropriately represented on the boards of industry super funds....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that bank planners and vertical integration are on the enforcement agenda for 2015/16....
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has dropped the requirement that key superannuation board committees need to have a majority of independent directors....
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s new reporting standards for super funds confirm continuing bureaucratic life for planner trailing commissions....
Editorial
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...
Superannuation
APRA has stated it sees no sizeable problems around the funding of Industry Super Australia and its lobbying efforts against Government Budget measures....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC has issued a harsh assessment of how lenders are handling interest-only loans reminiscent of its critical analysis of life/risk advice arrangements....
Superannuation
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....
Life/Risk
The hard-line claims handling practices of insurers are doing more damage to the viability of group insurance than the involvement of lawyers, according to a leading plai...
Life/Risk
Big insurer, TAL, has launched a new consumer-oriented lifebroker comparison tool....
Financial planning
The big banks need to freeze statute of limitation dates for customers participating in advice compensation schemes....
Editorial
The idea of a last resort compensation scheme is again being canvassed in Canberra but it is something that should not occur in isolation to fixing the PI insurance regim...
Financial planning
Industry Super Australia has told the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that retail super funds are disguising investment costs via the use of platforms....
Financial planning
A specialist financial services lawyer has warned that any moves by ASIC to recover the costs of its investigations and prosecutions from those it convicts could end up b...
Superannuation
The Federal Government has firmed on its approach to super fund governance changes amid APRA analysis pointing to serious variability in governance standards from fund to...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...