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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has nominated life/risk churn as an area still high on its agenda and deserving of new expenditure....

Policy & Regulation

A Senate Committee has been told that imposing an email address requirement on the share registers of publicly-listed companies runs the risk of finding them all in breac...

Superannuation

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has pointed to people being able to opt-out of insurance inside superannuation via e-mail....

Superannuation

Retail funds have beaten industry funds for numbers of females and independent directors they have on their boards....

Superannuation

The default funds regime is paternalistic industrial legacy which is denying two million people a choice due to legacy enterprise agreements, according to the Financial S...

Policy & Regulation

The Government needs to diagnose what Australians are actually angry about before holding a Royal Commission, according to the former Treasurer....

Superannuation

The Government has only tinkered around the edges by closing off a superannuation guarantee loophole being used by unscrupulous employers, say the industry funds....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Government the growing burden of regulatory costs could see some smaller financial services licensees exit the sector...

Policy & Regulation

The Government flagged the existence of a loophole in last year’s Budget and the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has admitted a handful of mili...

Financial planning

Industry submissions have revealed the level of self-managed superannuation fund industry concerns around the Government’s proposed changes to LRBA arrangements....

Policy & Regulation

The ABA said today the industry’s Code of Banking Practice was on track to be finalised by the end of the 2017, which it said was ambitious but necessary....

Life/Risk

The Life Insurance Code of Practice regime started on 1 July and has included new minimum medical definitions....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled its interest in whether the Life Insurance Framework changes will drive growth in level premiums....

Superannuation

The superannuation industry has told the Government it does not want to cross-subsidise the failures of other financial services sectors via a last resort compensation sc...

Financial planning

Disappointing results from ASIC’s inspection of audits by audit firms have led the corporate regulator to urge audit firms to find new and revised strategies to improve a...

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