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MAX Preview: Beyond value of advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... even more appealing to the planning panellists are campaigns around how they navigate through the current markets and regulation as principals of their own business. "This is possibly part of the cascade effect of FOFA and the realignment of businesses ...

Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... superannuation policies despite the spike in group insurance claims, figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show. According to APRA's Life Insurance Supplementary Statistical Tables covering the 12 months up to December ...

ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... recommendations from the previous review of the system. "The assumption that underpinned much of retail financial services regulation since the Wallis Inquiry - that disclosure is the best tool in almost every instance to fix market failures - has not ...

ASIC budget cuts send the wrong message: Greens

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... deregulation" and said it is "both dangerous and short-sighted and will put our economy and society at further risk." Weak regulation in the financial services sector caused the GFC," he said. "By cutting ASIC's funding the government is outsourcing ...

APRA announces draft 2014-15 supervisory levies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and Treasury have issued a discussion paper on the proposed supervision levies they wish to impose on financial entities for next financial year. In the paper APRA said it needs to raise $117 million ...

Dancing with digital: MAX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... services marketers face the twin challenges of being relevant to the digital investor while complying with snail-mail era regulation - but there are ways to get the best of both worlds. Speakers at this year's MAX Marketing, Adverting and Sales Excellence ...

Super returns bonanza fizzles out

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... have seen the lowest rates of return for almost two years, according to figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). In the March quarter, super funds with more than $50 million in funds under management saw rates of return ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will force the industry to rely more on self-regulation. The budget is contemplating cuts of $142.8 million over the next three years for the ATO and of $120.1 million over the next ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... abolishing the carbon tax and we are abolishing the mining tax. We are removing $1 billion a year in red tape because regulation means more staff doing paperwork and fewer staff helping customers. We are also creating new business opportunities and expanding ...

FSI to focus on the technology challenge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Economists in Sydney. Murray said that the most frequent issues raised in the first submissions to the inquiry were regulation, competition, consumer outcomes, ageing and super, banking and technology. He said that the inquiry will be looking at technology ...