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ASIC turns spotlight on direct life sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
ASIC is warning life insurers to do better when it comes to their direct sales practices that have placed doubt on their compliance obligations and put consumer outcomes at risk. While some life insurance firms have improved since ASIC's 2018 review ...

Leaders push for overseas skills recognition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... navigators to get qualified people working in their professions again. Those calling for the reforms said a key driver of the problem is Australia's costly system for recognising overseas-acquired skills and qualifications which locks people out of the ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... sizeable satisfaction gap on member services that's ultimately impacting member confidence," she said. "These numbers are a problem, but they're also an opportunity. They show that retirement and member services are two sides of the same coin. Get them ...

Account number issue causes angst, undue admin work: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... triggered if the fee consent form is considered to be invalid if missing the account number. Ultimately, Anderson said the problem "needs to be fixed through law change or by product providers making the account number known at the time of applying for ...

Chalmers calls for solutions, not problems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... has laid out the groundwork for participants of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable so the focus can remain on problem solving. Ahead of the Roundtable, which will be held over three days from August 19 to 21, Treasury has released three issues ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

ASIC calls out trustees 'passing the buck' on super switching

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... because you have chosen to put them on your shelves." Advice licensees, meanwhile, and their input into the super-switching problem that has reached "industrial scale" are not off the hook. The regulator is also zeroing in AFSLs. "There's a reason ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... really have full transparency into what they're buying?" At the heart of the regulatory concern lies a fundamental problem: unlike ASX-listed shares, which reprice by the second, private assets may only be revalued quarterly, semi-annually, or even ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... how to boost Australia's productivity, lays out several recommendations on how the nation can fix its productivity problem. This is in light of Australia's productivity performance having stalled in more recent years. Labour productivity growth ...

FAAA fights to reignite Dixon inquiry

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... government to contribute to it or for other sectors that are covered by the ASIC funding levy to contribute. That's a problem that the government is going to need to solve."