COMPLIANCE

The ATO has been told to work with stakeholders, including industry funds, to overcome employer superannuation guarantee non-compliance....

Financial planning

ASIC has acknowledged that newspapers headlines were wrong about planners taking big commissions to recommend residential property investments and that not one planner co...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants the Government to consider allowing ASIC the ability to pursue companies and officers over misdeeds caused by bad culture....

Funds management

Fear must be a greater factor than greed in influencing better standards of behaviour in the financial services industry, according to ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft....

Financial planning

ASIC refuses a planning firm permission to tailor how its planners’ remuneration and bonuses are revealed to clients....

Financial planning

ASIC and the Federal Treasury have been told to get real about the time needed to implement significant legislative and regulatory change in financial services....

Financial planning

Proposals canvassed for measuring the performance and value for money provided by ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC....

Policy & Regulation

An international expert questions in whose interests the regulators are really working for....

Funds management

ASIC confirms a continuing focus on FX trading businesses and the existence of several investigations....

Editorial

Is the Trade Union Royal Commission right in pointing to a money link between industry funds and trade unions?...

Financial planning

The CFA Institute urges an oath-based approach as it tells Treasury you can’t regulate against bad ethics....

Financial planning

APRA chairman, Wayne Byres, has reminded banks to maintain appropriate standards with respect to mortgage lending amid the current house price boom....

Financial planning

Next Tuesday’s Federal Budget is expected to put in motion ASIC’s transition to a user-pays funding regime....

Financial planning

ASIC has moved to issue a Regulatory Guide based on the recent remediation exercises flowing from major planning failures....

Financial planning

The AFA acknowledges that the approach outlined by the FPA on Trowbridge accords very closely with its own but deadlines remain the issue....

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