The release of ALRC’s final report into financial services legislation has highlighted financial advice as a “significant” focus as it seeks to reduce costs and help advi...

Clearer regulation and legislation for financial services is on the horizon as the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry, first launched in September 2020, is tabled...

The regulation of financial advice is one of the highest priorities for the Australian Law Reform Commission as it looks to revamp financial services legislation....

The ALRC’s third interim report is seeking to change financial services legislation to better reflect efforts that have been made to improve advice outcomes and professio...

The Australian Law Reform Commission has appointed a new president, six months after the departure of Justice Sarah Derrington in January. ...

Not only is there the Quality of Advice Review taking place this year, a legal review into financial services legislation has also been on the agenda....

With two days left to submit responses to the ALRC Review, the Corporations Act has been likened to a “disordered share house” that requires re-design and a deep clean. ...

The financial threshold test should be removed, according to Super Consumers Australia and a leading consumer advocacy lawyer, as measuring net worth is an unreliable ind...

The Advisers Association says the Australian Law Reform Commission needs to “tread carefully” with simplifying the Corporations Act and continue to conduct wide-ranging c...

The ability to access free online information about financial services law should be a priority for the Government before any reform of the Corporations Act, the Financia...

Questions are being asked about whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wrong to treat asset consultants differently to financial advisers i...

The Federal Court has ordered Secure Investments and Aqulia Group to wind up after it found Secure Investments and its director Mudasir Naseeruddin had breached the Corpo...

With or without code monitoring bodies or a single disciplinary body, some licensees have been breach-reporting to ASIC on adviser code breaches....

They have been charged with breaching client money obligations from between December, 2014, and September, 2018....