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Treasury releases Quality of Advice Review final report

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... currently don't have to provide an SoA. The report is also calling for an amendment to the design and distribution obligations (DDO) to limit the exception to the requirement to take reasonable steps to ensure the distribution of a financial product ...

Associations call for improved access to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
... easy wins such as streamlining fee disclosure requirements and iron out obligations like the design and distribution obligations." The letter to Jones was signed by Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Phil Anderson, Boutique Financial Planning ...

Regulator issues interim stop orders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... distribution conditions and therefore does not meet the appropriateness requirements under the design and distribution obligations, the regulator said. "ASIC expects Vasco to consider the concerns raised regarding the TMD and take immediate steps to ...

ASIC takes civil action against Firstmac

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... the first ever court case against a financial product distributor for alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations (DDO). The regulator commenced the civil penalty action in the Federal Court against Firstmac Limited following its first DDO ...

Target market determinations have improved: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2022
... this review is part of a series of initiatives ASIC is undertaking to address compliance with design and distribution obligations (DDO). "ASIC is working on targeted, risk-based surveillance and enforcement action, including issuing stop orders, and ...

ASIC launches civil action against American Express

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
ASIC has commenced the first ever court case in relation to alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations (DDO). The case concerns two credit cards issued by American Express (Amex) that were co-branded with retailer David Jones (the credit ...

ASIC hands out more interim stop orders

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... APS Savings Limited (APS Savings). To date, ASIC has issued 21 interim stop orders under the design and distribution obligations (DDO) including the orders for these funds. The interim stop orders placed on AFL will prevent the firm from offering or ...

Never been more optimistic: Abood

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... October." She noted other changes impacting advisers including expanded breach reporting and the design and distribution obligations (DDO), as well as advice fee consent requirements which "hit home." "These have been extremely problematic causing chaos ...

Property trusts hit with stop orders

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
... distribution conditions in the TMDs did not meet the appropriateness requirement under the design and distribution obligations (DDO) because these conditions were not specific enough to make it likely for the trusts to reach consumers in the target market. ...

ASIC issues more stop orders

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... that Finnia's TMD for the prospectus didn't meet the appropriateness requirements under the design and distribution obligations (DDOs). "This is because the distribution conditions were unlikely to result in the product being distributed to consumers ...