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Government passes FAR legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
... penalty on accountable entities," Jones said. BEAR, the FAR's first iteration, was recommended by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne in a bid to regulate senior leaders of super funds, banks, insurers, and other APRA-regulated entities at the culmination ...

No regrets: Hayne reflects on Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
Nearly six years since the landmark Royal Commission, former High Court justice Kenneth Hayne stands by his recommendations that upended the banking and financial services sectors. Making a rare appearance at the International Congress of Actuaries ...

ASIC response to Freedom Insurance saga continues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
... requests from the family, including for an apology, before issuing an apology weeks before fronting Commissioner Kenneth Hayne. Three months later it ceased selling life insurance and flagged the likelihood of a liquidity crisis before suspending trading ...

ASIC prepares licensees for reference checks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... in, and the results of compliance audits that relates to personal advice provided by the candidate. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne found that AFLSs did not do enough to communicate among themselves about the background of prospective advisers. To address ...

Delay breach reporting law: AFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers wants to defer the proposed self-reporting of breaches regime amid concerns it will be impossible for small financial advice firms to comply with. The AFA outlined its concerns about Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's ...

ASIC releases fee consent instrument

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... be provided in the coming months, ASIC said. All three new instruments are directly in response to Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's recommendations from the Royal Commission. "ASIC said that the instruments were designed to strike a balance between minimizing ...

Remediation services profiting from Royal Commission failures

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... should go to AFCA themselves rather than pay a fee. "When handing down the findings of the Royal Commission, Justice Kenneth Hayne captured the sentiment of the hearings in one word - greed," Stackpool told Financial Standard. "Remediator charges their ...

Reference checks should cover all advice: FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... recommended that advisers are bound by the same obligations as mortgage brokers (Recommendation 1.6). Commissioner Kenneth Hayne slammed the advice industry for its poor background-checking practices, urging it to follow in the footsteps of the ABA. ...

Key advice reforms tabled

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
New regulation that requires financial advisers to disclose conflicts of interest and stamp out fees-for-no service have been tabled in parliament. The Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2020 aims to strengthen many ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... directions and even cancelling licences in exceptional circumstances. The new law comes off the back of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne examining complex frameworks riddled with conflicts of interest. IOOF's complicated structure and poor governance over ...
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