LEGISLATION

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Law Reform Commission has published its second interim report on changes to financial services legislation including a proposed legislative model. ...

Policy & Regulation

A new bill before parliament, which would require large businesses to publish policies on payment times, will help protect small business cashflows, according to the Inst...

Financial planning

The financial services bodies have welcomed the extension of the FASEA exam and education standards, which now have the deadline of 1 January, 2022, and 1 January, 2026, ...

Superannuation

Legislation will be introduced next year to allow trustees to voluntarily transfer any amount of inactive low balance accounts to the tax office, spelling the beginning o...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

Funds management

Victoria’s new stamp duty laws will drive up costs for unlisted wholesale and retail property funds sector, according to the Property Funds Association....

Superannuation

Federal Parliament yesterday passed legislation intended to weed out underperforming superannuation fund trustees, in a move that a major industry body said would “end th...

Superannuation

AMP Limited has acknowledged a multi-million impact flowing from the Government’s legislative changes to superannuation including transferring 370,000 low balance account...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds will likely struggle to meet the Government’s 1 July implementation date for its new superannuation legislation....

Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Senate’s passage of superannuation bills which will reduce fees charged on low balance MySuper accounts....

Superannuation

The Federal Government has controversially amended legislation before the Parliament to target the use of corporate boxes by industry funds to influence employer default ...

Policy & Regulation

With elements of its superannuation legislation stalled by the Christmas/New Year Parliamentary break the Government has opted to use its regulatory powers to push throug...

Superannuation

Despite suggestions it had shelved its push for majority independent directors on superannuation fund boards, the Government has made clear the issue remains very much al...

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...

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has accused the Government of caving into the retail banks and the wealth management sector in allowing ‘carve-outs’ from the design and distribu...

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