Financial Standard - Regulatory

Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC
By Melanie Timbrell | In Regulatory

12:25 pm

Mon, 20 Feb

The exponential growth in superannuation has been named the first challenge to growing the resilience of the Australian regulatory perimeter by Greg Medcraft, chairman of ASIC. read more

No time for FOFA impact statement: OBPR
By Melanie Timbrell | In Regulatory

12:10 pm

Wed, 15 Feb

The Office of Best Practice Regulation has said time pressures prevented an adequate regulatory impact statement being prepared on six elements of the FOFA legislation. read more

ASIC brings criminal charges against SMSF adviser
By Claire McGreal | In Regulatory

11:55 am

Wed, 15 Feb

A New South Wales SMSF adviser has appeared in court, charged with obtaining money by deception and of making a false or misleading statement to ASIC. read more

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads
By Claire McGreal | In Regulatory

11:55 am

Wed, 15 Feb

ASIC is set to clamp down on misleading advertisments for financial products and services as part of its continued shake up of the financial services system. read more

Super tax subsidies don't favour the rich: Mercer
By Alex Dunnin | In Regulatory

12:00 pm

Tue, 14 Feb

Mercer has released a research paper that dismisses claims retirement income funding through superannuation tax concessions favours the wealthy. read more

Astarra auditor banned for three years
By Elise Burgess | In Regulatory

12:05 pm

Fri, 10 Feb

Astarra Strategic Fund auditor, Timothy Frazer, is prevented from auditing companies for three years, after ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking that he would not act as a registered company auditor during that time. read more

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes
By Melanie Timbrell | In Regulatory

12:40 pm

Tue, 7 Feb

High frequency trading and dark pools are the biggest issues of contention in the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's extended consultation process on market integrity rules, according to one industry expert. read more

ASIC charges against new wave of boiler room scams
By Elise Burgess | In Regulatory

12:05 pm

Mon, 6 Feb

ASIC has warned of the rising number of 'boiler room' investment scams after obtaining Supreme Court orders against one financial planning firm accused of defrauding 36 investors in excess of $350,000. read more

Call for new generation annuities
By Elise Burgess | In Regulatory

12:25 pm

Fri, 3 Feb

The Actuaries Institute has called for tax disincentives to be removed from proposed deferred lifetime annuity products, along with the development of a new generation of annuities in its pre-budget submission to the Federal Government. read more

ASIC continues Trio crackdown
By Claire McGreal | In Regulatory

12:20 pm

Thu, 2 Feb

The investigation into the collapse of failed fund manager Trio Capital continues, with the banning of another figure with ties to the firm. read more

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