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Consultation on mortgage broker best interests duty opens

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
The corporate watchdog has started a four week consultation process to draft guidance on the new best interests duty for Australia's mortgage brokers. From July 1 this year, mortgage brokers will be legally required to act in the best interests of consumers ...

Corrupt adviser banned, AFSL canned

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser from providing financial services for seven years and cancelled the AFS licence of his business. The corporate regulator found that Timothy Shapter had not provided advice in his client's best interests ...

SSGA to scrutinise ASX 100 directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... laggards and unresponsive to engagement, we will be voting against a director." "We are also putting the underperformers on watch and will start engaging with them to make sure they improve their performance on these issues." The choice of indices was ...

Government opens BEAR extension consultation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... said the obligations of FAR would make senior financial services executives more accountable for what happens under their watch. "These obligations will ensure that senior executives of these financial entities will be more accountable for the activities ...

Viridian opens new offices

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... could develop something where people - more the general community, not even the financial planning community - could go to watch videos and get education on financial topics, that would be great."

Industry fund looks within for co-chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... board and the trustee office," Watson said. Late last year the fund put investment adviser Orbis Investment Advisory "on watch" due to the firm's 23% holding in XPO Logistics, on the grounds that it was concerned with XPO's governance. "First Super is ...

Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... characterised by high prices and valuations, and investor euphoria and craziness are also an, if not the most, important thing to watch." He said growing signs of insider selling, M&A activity and FOMO were all signs to watch for overvalued market. Rodda ...

Sydney beats Dubai on most expensive cities list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
Sydney is more expensive than Dubai and has the world's priciest business class flights but best-value luxury shopping, says a new report. Sydney came in as the 15th most expensive city in the world, ahead of Dubai at 17 in the Julius Bar's ...

Consumer data right for open banking delayed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The ACCC has delayed the launch of consumer data right (CDR) for the banking sector to July 2020, postponing key components of the reform that would have allowed the kick-off of open banking in Australia by February next year. Consumers will now be ...

New Year, new APRA

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
Like many of us do nearing the end of the year, APRA has taken time for some self-reflection and assessment, identifying three areas it needs to work on next year. APRA has released its 2018/19 self-assessment report to review its key performance indicators ...