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Draft amendments to OTC rules released

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
The government is seeking submissions on the new draft legislation for the mandatory central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives it has released. This is the latest step in a series of reforms aimed at bringing Australia in ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... listed along major regulatory changes such as the Basel III rules that will require banks to hold more capital, or the Volcker Rule in the United States that limits the bank's relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds to prevent them from ...

TASA breach costs business $900,000

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
A tax and accounting business has been fined a record $900,000 penalty for breaches of the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) that all financial advisers need to comply with. The Federal Court of Australia ruled against Peter Kolya and his Canberra-based ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower following sharp losses on Wall Street. At 0650 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 30 points at 5,748. Wall Street stocks fell one per cent on a strengthening US ...

Super rules for women still unclear

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
A federal parliament bill aiming to clear uncertainty around employers paying female staff more superannuation does not have support from the current government, Fairfax Media reports. In 2014 the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
With minimum education standards surely now set to rise in the financial planning industry, the Financial Standard team has asked experts to outline what the new rules might look like and the possible routes advisers can take. What qualities will the ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... the conditions for raising the target range for the federal funds rate had been satisfied, al-though they generally did not rule out this possibility." There was the same acknowledgement of economic weakness in the first quarter that we read about in ...

New SIV rules target smaller companies boost

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
From July new Significant Investor Visa (SIV) applicants must invest a minimum of $5 million across three complying arrangements after new rules were formally announced by the federal government. To comply with an SIV, applicants will have to place ...

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... subsidiaries reportedly increasing to 22%. At the Charter Hall media briefing, head of investor relations Nick Kelly did not rule out future purchases of hospitality groups with the sector performing well against retail supermarkets and hardware stores. ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 Budget is expected to focus largely on Age Pension reforms that will likely require changes in the approach that the superannuation industry, financial advisers and professional investors take to design retirement strategies. Prior to the release ...