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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against imposing another layer of regulation and cost on financial advise...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants the Government to commission the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to monitor the escalating costs of practicing a...

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

Superannuation

The superannuation industry is in danger of being strangled by regulatory over-reach, according to the independent chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Mi...

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has cautioned against extending the so-called regulatory sandbox towards superannuation and holistic advice....

Funds management

ASIC has released new and updated guidance for the funds management industry for consultation to reduce regulatory burden....

Policy & Regulation

The government has announced the appointment of a new ASIC chair for a five-year period, effective from 1 February next year....

Policy & Regulation

Determinations by the Government’s new Australian Financial Complaints Authority should be open to appeal to the courts, according to a submission received by the Senate ...

Policy & Regulation

The big four banks have agreed to specific contractual changes with ASIC to eliminate unfair terms from their agreements....

Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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...

Features

Advisers might be keeping pace with technology, but are they on top of the regulation that goes with it? Hope William-Smith finds out....

Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioners Board has released guidance to assist tax professionals to understand their legal obligations around cloud computing....

Features

Hugh Young looks at how regulatory and technological change will shape demands for more productive investments....

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