The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared that just because behaviour is lawful does not make it an excuse where consumer detriment is concerned....
The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has made clear the Government will opt for retirement income certainty rather than the superannuation guarantee recommendations of ...
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has joined the dissent against the Grattan Institute’s retirement report, labelling it “an unprecedented attack on th...
A Melbourne-based financial services and credit business has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay penalties of just under nine million for multiple breaches of obliga...
Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...
A senior South Australian financial planner has warned a Parliamentary Committee that middle-class retirees will be most affected by the Federal Opposition’s franking cre...
New research commissioned by building industry group, Master Builders Australia has pointed to significant economic damage resulting from the Federal Opposition’s policie...
Following a period of significant change for self-managed superannuation fund policy, trustees and their advisers should remember to review trust deeds, weathdigital has ...
The global corporate lending platform has warned the Federal Government of substantial weaknesses in its proposed Open Banking implementation plan....
Industry superannuation funds are urging the imposition of greater comparability around fees, costs and performance to give transparency around advisers switching members...
New analysis suggests that Labor’s proposed changes to dividend imputation could have unintended consequences extending well beyond SMSFs to industry and retail superannu...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided legislative relief that will allow exchange-traded fund market makers to make named short sales in ETF a...
Better targeting those with future social support needs could deliver big budget savings and better outcomes for those within Australia’s social security system, the Actu...
The Alliance for a Fairer Retirement System has backed the government inquiry into Labor’s proposal to scrap refundable franking credits....
The new Banking Code of Practice should be adopted across the entire industry, including credit unions, building societies and other lenders, according to the Australian ...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...