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ASIC proposes further breach reporting relief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... auditor reviews - highlighting the "significant need for streamlining the reporting system" to cut disproportionate regulation which results in "businesses and ASIC incurring unnecessary time and expense." "This includes 34,000 hours of compliance staff ...

Housing construction lags broader economy by 49%: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... housing development and construction process and intervene in cases of long delays. An independent review of building regulation is also needed. "This review should cover the National Construction Code's effectiveness against its aims and objectives ...

Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... the advice industry has faced over the last decade, Robertson said it's been easy to get bogged down in compliance, regulation, staffing, and the demands of being an investment guru. Even so, he remains optimistic about the profession's future, "doubling ...

Australian super assets set to become second largest globally: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... pools continues to increase, we are seeing increased influence by governments towards pension funds, primarily through regulation, which has expanded in line with both the size and growing significance of pensions in society. This has been particularly ...

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... policymakers to revisit and scrutinise the design and implementation of its recommendations and the impact of that regulation on the industry and its consumers, Briggs said at an event hosted by financial PR firm PritchittBland yesterday. He said neither ...

Victorian SMSF auditor fails to overturn disqualification

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
A Victorian-based self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditor will remain disqualified after he failed to overturn ASIC's initial verdict. ASIC originally disqualified Nazrul Islam, of Clayton South in Victoria, from being an approved SMSF auditor ...

AFCA chief operating officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... effective March 14. Untersteiner is set to take up the role of chief executive of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra). "We congratulate Justin on his new role, and I am glad that another national, for-purpose organisation will ...

Auditors tighten fist on greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
The global ethics watchdog has issued fresh directives on judging green claims, with the minutiae still in flux in Australia as mandatory reporting begins for large entities and financial firms. Part of a broad crackdown on greenwashing and ESG-related ...

Climate funds see first year of outflows

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... €4 billion, marking the 15th consecutive month of net outflows. Under the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Article 9 funds are 'dark green' strategies which have sustainable investment as their primary objective. However ...

Government to streamline financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... more competitive, dynamic and productive economy," Chalmers said. "It complements our other efforts to better target regulation across the economy, including through the biggest overhaul to merger settings in 50 years and our changes to strengthen and ...