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Litigation funders will need AFSLs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... litigation funder, the merged Omni Bridgeway and IMF Bentham supported the call for regulation last week as the parliamentary joint committee inquiry into class actions and litigation funding got underway. "As the pioneer of litigation funding in Australia ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... calculated the impact of the ERS initiative on retirement balances of super fund members, a response to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services question on notice reveals. ASIC was asked by Liberal Senator and Committee ...

Calls for super funds, government to collaborate on energy security

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... reserves since 2011. He authored three reports for NRMA, assisted with a 2015 senate enquiry and with a 2018 parliamentary joint committee. "We should be thinking about some of our superannuation funds investing in this, with government agreement for ...

Complexity of grandfathered commissions overlooked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... "Supposedly the writing was on the wall; however the reality is very different." Anderson points out that during the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry into the FOFA legislation grandfathering was not the subject ...

Frydenberg flags new advice disciplinary system

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... Frydenberg said. "In comparison, the Future of Financial Advice Reforms (FOFA), took almost 23 months from when the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services tabled its report to when legislation was first introduced. "There ...

Document leak puts NAB under the pump

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... Wales Labor Senator Deborah O'Neill successfully moved to refer the auditing sector to an inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services in Parliament yesterday, with a final report due by March 1 2020.

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... People in the group that was told about disclosures were more likely to decline the test. "We know that the Parliamentary Joint Committee recommended a moratorium for that and other reasons, but there could be different evidence put forward," Chen said. ...

MP slams prolonged grandfathered commissions carve out

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... pointed out that Parliament agreed to provide a "carve-out" for grandfathered commissions. But the report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that looked at FoFA indicated the carve-out was only for that point ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... rehabilitation and early intervention treatment have been scrapped by the Federal Government. In response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' report released yesterday, the Financial Services Council said ...

Post Royal Commission change is all talk: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... from financial institutions in meeting reporting requirements. On Friday, ASIC chair James Shipton told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that the regulator is still experiencing "slow and delayed responses from ...