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Australia to act as Australasian arm of Deloitte’s chain of Cyber Intelligence Centres....

Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

Financial planning

Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....

Superannuation

ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....

Financial planning

ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....

Superannuation

AIST urges Government not to adopt Board of Taxation’s recommendations lifting the super payment threshold for low income workers to $1350 a quarter....

Financial planning

ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...

Financial planning

SPAA chief executive, Andrea Slattery, says SMSF trustees should feel comforted by the level of regulatory scrutiny the sector receives....

Superannuation

Frydenberg commits to changing an SG Charge regime described as “unnecessarily harsh”....

Financial planning

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

Financial planning

The major industry funds groups want ASIC to receive better budgetary resourcing to regulate financial planners....

Funds management

Newly appointed Federal Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has backed governance improvements for superannuation funds, including more independent directors....

Superannuation

APRA says it has reduced the compliance burden of super funds under its watch by changing a definition and cutting back on heavily-criticised duplication in reporting req...

Superannuation

New survey reveals that super fund CEOs need to accept responsibility for the actions of their officers and executives....

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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