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Super fund advice needs more guardrails: Conference

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
Loosening financial advice regulation under the Quality of Advice Review proposals would highly benefit superannuation fund members, but many are convinced that this only works in theory. The Quality of Advice Review chair Michelle Levy stuck to her ...

The great super cover up is over: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
The government's controversial superannuation regulations that allowed less transparency in super fund payments to unions have been quashed. A motion from Senators Jacqui Lambie and Nick McKim to disallow the proposed regulations passed in the Senate ...

"A lawyer's picnic": QAR report slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
Consumer bodies have criticised the Quality of Advice Review's final report, saying the proposals create a two-tier system whereby poorer Australians will only be able to access conflicted advice. Super Consumers Australia director Xavier O'Halloran ...

Government acts to regulate crypto assets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
Crypto asset licensing and custody reforms by the government are targeting subsets outside the financial services framework. In a joint statement, treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones said ...

CPA calls for regulatory reforms for NFPs, charities

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
In its latest pre-budget submission, CPA Australia has asked for the government to assist not-for-profits (NFPs) in building out their capabilities. To do so, the professional accounting body has suggested incentivizing small business and NFPs to access ...

Regulation should be balanced: Levy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
Financial advisers need a balanced regulatory framework, says Michelle Levy, lead of the government's Quality of Advice Review (QAR). At an event hosted by PritchittBland, Levy said almost all stakeholders are unhappy with the current system; financial ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches new fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2023
Stafford Capital Partners has launched its fifth Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund (SISF V). The fund has a $2 billion target and seeks to provide access to a diversified global infrastructure portfolio, with core infrastructure risk predominately ...

Demand for illiquid assets surge: Aeon Investments

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
Research has revealed investors and family offices are gradually turning towards illiquid assets, including private debt, to shelter from the global macro storm. Aeon Investments conducted a survey of family offices controlling a total of $98.4 billion ...

Target market determinations have improved: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2022
ASIC thinks regulatory intervention has improved lenders target market determinations (TMD), but it still harbours concerns over product descriptions. ASIC Report 754 focuses on small amount credit contracts (SACCs) due to the overrepresentation of ...

HNWIs remain interested in digital assets: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
... across all regions said that they expect most assets will be digital. Off the back of this, many said that greater regulation "will be an enabler for critical mass since this lack of clarity breeds risk and uncertainty." This is especially true for 46% ...