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Regulation, industry to curb greenwashing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... Stability Report said that $20 trillion is required over the next two decades alongside strong fiscal policies and regulation to facilitate the transition to net zero. In light of this, the IMF believes there needs to be better classification systems ...

Class action legislation open for consultation

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
... the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services in its report on litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry, including recommendations 7, 11, 12, 13, and 16. Recommendation 7 recommends the Australian ...

Adviser exam cost jumps under new bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021
The Better Advice Bill is proposing several changes to the mandatory financial advice exam, including substantially increasing the cost of each sitting. The Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response-Better Advice) Bill 2021 exposure draft ...

ASIC bans adviser, cancels AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
... financial services business, maintain competence to provide financial service and ensure representatives complied with the regulation. Pure Strategy also failed to comply with its licence condition to have a 'key person'. The licence will remain in effect ...

Conflicts of interest risk in funds management still high: ASIC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
Financial advisers who are vertically integrated or have a financial relationship with fund managers pose a potential risk for conflicts of interest, particularly in relation to costs and managed accounts, new research shows. New research conducted ...

Accumulation bubble ending: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
... Inwood said. Inwood later went on to say that the financial advice industry is the midst of a significant redesign from regulation to satisfaction and acknowledged the generation of supressed Australians who have been unable to go out and spend money. ...

More advisers switching practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... up-to-date financial advice research," Rainmaker Information executive director of research Alex Dunnin said. "With regulation impacting the advice landscape significantly, it's important for us to keep on top of the trajectory of the industry and ...

ASIC worried about finfluencers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
ASIC is concerned that Australians are turning to financial influencers for advice because professional financial advice is too expensive. New ASIC chair Joe Longo spoke at the Association of Financial Advisers' annual national conference. Longo said ...

Kiwi markets regulator names new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... Barrass is the former chief executive of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. She led the prudential and conduct regulation of a complex financial services sector that primarily exports financial services and represents around 25% of Gibraltar's ...

Former Macquarie chief to head ASIC, APRA regulator

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... Studies. Cass-Gottlieb is recognised as one of Australia's leading lawyers. She is a partner in the competition and regulation group at Gilbert + Tobin. In 2018, she was re-appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Payments System Board. Meanwhile ...