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Policy & Regulation

A former Perth financial services representative has been banned from providing financial services following a Court conviction for four counts of stealing....

Policy & Regulation

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....

Policy & Regulation

AMP Limited and the major banks together with the regulators will be the focus of attention during the next round of Royal Commission hearings....

Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation funds should be excluded from the product design and distribution rules, according to the SMSF Association....

Policy & Regulation

The Morrison Government has reappointed Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chair, Wayne Byres, for five more years and committed $58.7 million of new fundi...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Superannuation

ASFA is encouraging the Government to consider expanding access to the exemption from the contributions work test to individuals with a total superannuation balance under...

Superannuation

Assistant treasurer Stuart Robert has announced a plan to ensure that death benefits that include insurance proceeds are not subject to tax when rolled over to a new supe...

Policy & Regulation

The Queensland Supreme Court has made ex parte orders regarding the Goldsky Global Access Fund, following an investigation by ASIC in which it was assisted by its America...

Life/Risk

The Federal Government has been urged to drop the minimum age for automatic insurance cover inside superannuation to 21, rather than age 25....

Superannuation

The Federal Government has moved to eliminate mistakes and oversights from its retirement income covenant at the same time as extending the deadline for funds introducing...

Financial planning

Dishonestly using his position to gain benefits in the amount of $800,000 has seen a former Gold Coast financial adviser sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by th...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Policy & Regulation

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...

Policy & Regulation

New research from Deloitte has revealed that, despite everything that has been heard at the Royal Commission, most people still trust their banks....

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