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Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... increasing ASIC's powers to immediately ban financial planners that are not providing proper advice, as well as changing disclosure obligations so aligned advisers and dealer groups are forced to reveal institutional ownership. Read all Financial Standard ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... said that "the customer experience with vertically integrated entities can be enhanced through: refinement of existing disclosure and improved governance models for licensees." Read all Financial Standard coverage of the FSI here

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... Banking Association (COBA), representing credit unions, building societies and mutual banks, is also calling for greater disclosure. The same survey found that 70.4% of respondents thought bank advertisements were 'confusing' and 64.7% believed they ...

Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... consider dumping retail investment product providers obligations to issue prospectuses as the quid pro-quo for continuous disclosure, a panel of leading finance industry lawyers has said. The proposal surfaced following the release of the interim Financial ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... must recognise the impact of local policy settings such as compulsion, preservation, portability and the reliance on disclosure as a regulatory tool. The law firm says these are valuable aspects of our system but expensive to administer and the brunt ...

Portfolio disclosure a 'data dump' on consumers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The proposed portfolio holdings disclosure rules amount to a "data dump" that is useless to consumers, according to Michael Gordon, group executive at Perpetual Investments. Arguing in the affirmative for the ACSA debate, 'Disclosure requirements... ...

FSC Conference: Experts forecast FSI outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... and disability via private sector insurance and super options. He also expects the FSI to ask for additional advice disclosure and licensing measures beyond FoFA including a distinction between personal advice and general product information. Chipman ...

Licensee under ASIC scrutiny after employing AAA advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... provided by PGW to clients did not demonstrate a reasonable basis for the recommendations made and compliance with disclosure obligations applying to advice on switching financial products. The regulator has concerns regarding PGW's failure to maintain ...

Companies must understand their investors better, report says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... discrete, public-access and user-friendly section of their websites, to provide, and to update in a timely manner, the disclosure elements of the Principles and Guidelines."

Regulators relaxed about social media: IOSCO

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... traditional regulatory approaches as the fundamental rules and guidelines already established for advertising, product disclosure, risk warnings, record keeping, and general supervisory control requirements." However, regulators are "increasingly using ...