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Prime Super refreshes executive lineup

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... Prime Super will welcome two new executives - one to run legal and governance and the other to look after risk and compliance. Luke Hooper has 20 years of experience in superannuation and investment law. He has acted for several industry-based, government ...

Regulators warn of possible issues with FAR reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... demonstrate appropriate oversight and to be prepared to attest to the adequacy of the entity's FAR framework and its compliance with FAR obligations." The regulators said they had observed possible gaps in the assignment or notification of prescribed ...

Top asset owners return to growth: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... owners to take a more sophisticated approach in managing the intersections between financial return and regulatory compliance."

Can technology help advisers service the masses?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... of making sure that advisers are quarantined in their ability to deliver advice in a compliant way. In that respect, compliance has overplayed its hand from a government regulatory perspective," he said. This outcome mirrors that of the UK government's ...

Treasury consults on new crypto tax laws

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... the CARF was born from this review. "The CARF improves visibility of income from crypto assets. This helps increase compliance with local tax laws and deter tax evasion," Treasury said. Since crypto assets can be transferred and held without interacting ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... to training across the organisation; measure the return on investment from training initiatives; and better target compliance training through measures such as regular evaluation and minimising unnecessary re-training. To assist, CEDA suggests governments ...

ATO recovers $900m in unpaid super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... Taxation Office (ATO) recovered over $900 million in unpaid super owed to 800,000 employees in the past year. Latest compliance data from the ATO shows $932 million in previously unpaid superannuation reached the retirement accounts of 797,000 employees ...

Admin and compliance taking up 56% of advice practice costs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... Participants revealed 56.5% of the average advice practice costs are spent on product administration, reporting and compliance. The findings identified three core challenges including a lack of integration between a large volume of different systems ...

Advice take up falls amid decade-low retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... traditional financial advice service has re-orientated or shifted in the past few years due to all of the regulatory and compliance [changes] that advisers have to face," Guiamatsia added. "What we are seeing here is the divergence between the demand ...

Second bidder enters SelfWealth takeover talks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... that shareholders vote in favour of its proposal. In 2021, ASIC slapped AxiCorp with additional conditions for several compliance failures. AxiCorp's AFSL was suspended for four months after the regulator found it failed to comply with certain financial ...