GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION

Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog has commenced consultation on proposals to revise ‘sunsetting’ class orders relating to the managed funds industry....

Policy & Regulation

Life insurers will have to change the price structure of policies offered through car dealerships or face further regulatory reform, ASIC warns....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government is being urged to upgrade the status of unpaid superannuation guarantee entitlements and include them in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee regime....

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Superannuation

The Government must introduce super policies that take into account gender pay gap, and broken work patterns in women, rather than sticking to policies conducive to full-...

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Superannuation

SMSF Association chief executive, Andrea Slattery, has pointed to the need for super policy certainty amid the current market volatility....

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Policy & Regulation

New legislation introduced by the Turnbull Government yesterday has targeted the removal of a competitive tax advantage for overseas firms amid a push for a modernisation...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC will continue to focus on good culture in financial institutions but will find it a beast to regulate given it is a vague concept, a law firm says....

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Editorial

Closing the gap with respect to women’s retirement incomes is a challenge best surmounted via a political unity ticket....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian credit licence of Net Finance (Corp) Pty Ltd and banned its director, Graham Tandy, from the credit industry for 10 years....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....

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Superannuation

Constant regulatory tinkering means the cost effectiveness of Australia’s superannuation system is still not comparable to the rest of the world, Rice Warner head Michael...

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Superannuation

ASFA has urged the Government to allow employers to contribute more to female workers to help bridge the superannuation gender gap....

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Accounting

The Federal Government has released draft legislation to employ the first phase of reforms to streamline Australia’s personal bankruptcy and corporate insolvency rules....

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Policy & Regulation

Conflicted remuneration bans have monumentally changed the way advisers make their money, with the commission model replaced by a move to fixed fees, according to the cor...

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Financial planning

The FSI will not change anything and the status quo will be maintained, according to a finance/insurance broker....

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