DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTION OBLIGATIONS

Financial planning

Prior to now, advisers were not in a position to deal with understanding the design and distribution obligations but now is the time given the raft of information coming ...

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Policy & Regulation

The introduction of design and distribution obligations this October will make it even more important for firms to have strict data management processes in place, accordi...

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Policy & Regulation

A tick-a-box approach to the new design and distribution obligations will not do and financial services will need to get the new regime right from day one, according to t...

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Expert Analysis

The implementation of design and distribution obligations to the Australian financial services industry will bring with it a range of new challenges but, as Mikkel Bates ...

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Policy & Regulation

Experience in the United Kingdom suggests it may be a lot more expensive to recruit and retain senior executives under the Government’s proposed new Financial Accountabil...

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Financial planning

The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will regard personal advice entailing client best interests as obviating many of the adviser strictures of the new de...

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Policy & Regulation

Platform providers and those engaged in managed accounts will need to be alert to new regulations which extend the sweep of the Design and Distribution Obligations regime...

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Policy & Regulation

The Law Council of Australia has urged the Government that it needs to amend proposed new financial product design and distribution laws to exclude intervention in produc...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Baking Association has warned that new Design and Distribution laws may result in bank staff being mistaken for advisers....

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Life/Risk

A key Senate Committee has been told that the Government’s new Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention powers risk putting advisers in conflict with ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing that giving it product sales training intervention powers may reduce the need for it to take extreme actio...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has suggested risk rating financial products to better target consumer protections....

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