Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

The Customer Owned Banking Association and Master Builders Australia have both welcomed proposed credit reforms from the Federal Government to allow easier access to cred...

The Federal Government has announced it will extend the $150,000 instant asset write-off to 31 December, 2020 ....

The Government has deferred the introduction of a Retirement Income Covenant raising concerns that it is building towards far-reaching changes to the superannuation via i...

A lawyers group is urging the Federal Government to speed up the implementation of a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort arguing that past bad advice is only now coming ho...

Managers have praised the Reserve Bank of Australia’s efforts but warned the central bank can ‘only do so much’ to stop the tide of the worldwide economic chaos caused by...

Australia will receive a large $17.6 billion direct stimulus package, which will include a $2.4 billion health package and hospital funding to the states and territories...

The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

All participants in the financial services industry should bear the burden of funding a compensation scheme of last resort but any levy should be capped at 0.5% of revenu...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...