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ASIC makes adviser exam changes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... their results." "The government is committed to ensuring the exam remains a pillar of the financial adviser professional standards."

APAC investors embrace value-added strategies: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024
... residential, and Tokyo residential are all tied in second place at 56%. ANREV director of research and professional standards Amelie Delaunay said the 2024 Investment Intentions Survey is reflecting investors' penchant for high returns following a challenging ...

Treasury releases climate disclosure draft legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
... would make financial disclosure of climate risk and opportunity mandatory in Australia using the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB)'s SR1 Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards - Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information ...

Treasury to refresh financial adviser exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... until 10 January 2024, is proposing several changes under the Corporations (Relevant Providers-Education and Training Standards) Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Determination 2023. Treasury wants to remove the short answer questions from the exam and ...

Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... rely on them to pick up on fraud and errors, and they should rightly be held to account if they don't uphold the standards that we expect of them." Many of Caddick's clients, which included non-SMSF clients, were given fake CommSec statements ...

RBA names new chief economist

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
... transparency in monetary policy decisions is also outlined in the Statement. This includes a commitment to maintain high standards of governance to support decision making and public trust." Meanwhile, the Statement included changes in the appointment ...

Final QAR reforms open door to super funds

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
... commissions associated with the personal advice they offer. The government said they will also be required to meet additional standards that were not recommended by the Review. This includes being subject to the modernised best interests duty so that ...

Small, large entity regulation needs balance: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... right hygiene, [and the] right controls in place, and we expect - whether you're CBA or a credit union to have basic standards in play," he said. "We've got a lot of discussion that happens with regulated entities. They put to us where the pain ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023
... organisations "to make high quality, comparable and useful climate disclosures based on the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards" - a significantly greater level of detailed disclosures than current reporting practices, which ...

Potential reporting relief for trustees: ASIC

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2023
... which closes December 4. ASIC added that it granted the extension to begin with as a result of APRA's reporting standards, which have been evolving as part of its superannuation data transformation project (SDT). The multi-year project, still in ...