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End to unfair mortgage exit fees

ASIC AND CHOICE RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
ASIC has released a consultation paper on new laws regulating mortgage early exit fees, which are unconscionable or unfair. The new paper, titled Mortgage early exit fees: Unconscionable fees and unfair contract terms (CP 135), contains proposals that ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... entered voluntary administration last month. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission released a consultation paper last month aimed to improving disclosure to retail investors by responsible entities of agribusiness schemes. The corporate ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... including how much debt they owe, could renew investor confidence. This week corporate regulator ASIC released a consultation paper on how agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) can improve their disclosure policies so that retail investors can ...

Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's consultation paper, Audit Quality in Australia: A Strategic Review follows extensive research on the industry that included reports and studies ...

ASIC proposal exposes investors to default risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... develop a listed corporate bond market, which aims to provide retail investors with access to corporate debt. The consultation paper proposes a shorter prospectus for bond offers and focusses on the terms of the offer and the ability for the issuer to ...

AFA calls for more consultation on education

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said the Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) education consultation paper includes some "good ideas" and called for a truly consultative approach to developing education standards. Richard Klipin ...

FPA board approves move away from commissions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... its members away from a commission-based model by July 2012. The FPA received more than 250 responses to its consultation paper "Financial Planner Remuneration" released in May, which helped the board develop the approved policy. "Our job is to ensure ...

Population explosion to reshape wealth and pension

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... which was a policy option advocated in IFSA's response to the Australia's Future Tax System - Retirement Income Consultation Paper in March this year," said IFSA's new chief John Brogden in a media statement. "IFSA maintains that the best way to alleviate ...

ASIC reviews prospectus disclosure of CRAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... their work to be quoted they are protected from liability regarding the contents of prospectuses and PDSs. The consultation paper seeks to obtain more information about: how important credit ratings are to retail investors; how common is the use of credit ...

ASIC charts margin lending requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... dealing in margin lending products. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released the Consultation Paper 108 Margin lending: training of financial advisers and Consultation Paper 109 Margin lending: Financial requirements. ASIC ...