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Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... compliance in the financial advice sector," he said. With much of the impacts of these reforms yet to hit the adviser community, Anderson argued there was a consensus that more was to come. In the last few years, advisers had faced FoFA reforms, the ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... economy. "It remains to be seen what further programmes are deployed as the spread of the virus continues and as the community faces even more restrictions on its ability to generate economic activity," Kirkham said. Kirkham said it is difficult to get ...

APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... levels. "[Looking at the numbers] we can really pick that time when COVID-19 was making a massive impact in terms of community awareness," she said. "The level of renew registrations is much higher than we had expected."

AFCA extends complaints response time

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... chief ombudsman David Locke said the temporary extension comes at a time when financial services firms and the general community face unprecedented difficulty. The extension will allow all parties involved in a dispute to have sufficient time to resolve ...

ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... involved in the consultation process. "We have come together and collectively worked with ASIC to help the Australian community and to ensure there are more skilled advisers in the marketplace to meet this demand," the groups said in a joint statement. ...

Superannuation fund cuts pay in C-suite

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... expected to be hard hit as ratepayers experience financial hardship. "I am committed to ensuring that our members and community stakeholders understand that we are at one with them and that we share in the impacts of this crisis." Some ASX-listed companies ...

Economic impact worst since WWII: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... new guidelines on social distancing and self-isolating has significantly reduced the spread of the virus through the community but at the same time delivered a hammer blow to the employment fortunes of many Australians. "A record 3.92 million Australians ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... militarism and the forced isolation of leprosy patients". So Prime Minister Abe can only invoke the Japanese' sense of community spirit and asked to limit social contacts by 70%-80%, for non-essential workers to work from home and companies to reduce ...

COVID-19 to push life premiums up: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... about whether they will be covered specifically for pandemics. "So far, insurers have strong messaging reassuring the community that any existing cover that has pandemic exclusions will not have them applied," the firm said. "It may be more difficult ...

Not safe to launch: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... system, APRA aims to achieve an appropriate balance between financial safety and other important considerations to the community - efficiency, competition, contestability and competitive neutrality," APRA's letter read. "In doing this, APRA is also ...