TREASURY

Financial planning

The Treasury has outlined how advisers and their AFSLs can utilise the proposed experience pathway if they meet the requirements, as it opens a consultation period for fe...

Financial planning

The Treasury has opened consultation on the proposed experience pathway, outlining what would deem an adviser to meet the education requirements....

Superannuation

The consultation paper on doubling the concessional tax rate for superannuation balances exceeding $3 million would take feedback from stakeholders until mid-April. ...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC is to receive an extra $4.3 million from the government to crack down on businesses making misleading sustainability claims as part of plans for an Australian Sustai...

Funds management

The country's financial regulators have sought to temper fears of a crisis following the collapse of three US banks. ...

Funds management

The Senate has ordered Treasury to disclose a confidential report detailing findings from a probe into alleged misconduct by ASIC's deputy chair. ...

Policy & Regulation

A Senate committee is set to scrutinise the Albanese government's proposed franking credit tax changes....

Financial planning

The Government has announced it will launch a consultation into the regulatory framework for managed investment schemes after several high-profile failures....

Policy & Regulation

The Albanese government has sought to allay fears its proposed changes to concessional super tax changes would have unintended consequences....

Financial planning

ASIC Commissioner Danielle Press confirmed the regulator has been in touch with Treasury on how differing ‘reasonable minds’ could agree on a common ground in Levy’s reco...

Superannuation

The Government has released the consultation paper for the definition of superannuation, putting forward one proposed objective and two alternatives....

Policy & Regulation

The Government has released draft legislation implementing two recommendations made by the Australian Law Reform Commission relating to improving financial services legis...

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Funds management

The Government is today releasing a consultation paper on developing an Australian climate risk disclosure framework which could see financial institutions required to pr...

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Policy & Regulation

The Treasury is seeking feedback from the public on regulatory frameworks for buy now, pay later arrangements. ...

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Funds management

In its annual review, the IMF has said the Australian economy is “on a narrow path for a soft landing” but continued monetary and fiscal policy tightening is needed....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 1 week ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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