Life insurance companies are now under a legal obligation to provide consistent data on claims and disputes to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Aust...

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...

New research commissioned by building industry group, Master Builders Australia has pointed to significant economic damage resulting from the Federal Opposition’s policie...

In a year in which few sectors of financial services have avoided the eagle eye of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and his counsels assisting, Hannah Wootton investigates what...

Mike Taylor writes that planners should brace themselves for the additional compliance burden resulting from the looming passage of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Design an...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled that financial institutions with a poor breach reporting record are likely to find themselves dealing w...

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 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told a key parliamentary committee it is funded and empowered to be the financial services “competition champion”....

The global corporate lending platform has warned the Federal Government of substantial weaknesses in its proposed Open Banking implementation plan....

The Federal Government has been warned of unintended consequences flowing from its plans to impose a 30 per cent withholding tax on international capital in the property ...

Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...

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...