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Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, has played down any chance of ramping up regulation over the financial planning industry and has urged key industry associations to take raising standards into their own hands. Opening the financial ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

In a speech to the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners conference, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce said the key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment ...

Talk to us and let's make FSR simpler: Chris Pearce

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, threw down the gauntlet today, asking ASIC to pass the industry's message back to the Government and promising to cut back the regulatory "red tape" in financial services. Speaking at an ASIC regulation ...

IFSA CEO pushes for IFRS changes

... set of solutions and we have made good progress. I've already received a letter from Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, and it is constructive. "It shows the government understands and has sympathy for the dilemma we're in," ...

FSR changes usher era of less but better compliance

... consumer-friendly, were finally passed on as law this week. In a 10-page statement from the office of Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, titled 'Effective Communication of Financial Services Information to Consumers', the government ...

IFSA get set to push product rationalisation

... IFSA's proposals include changes highlighted in its financial services reforms, submitted to Chris Pearce, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, along with amendments to the Corporations Act. Under the proposals product suppliers would be able to ...

Shareholder reforms save time and money: ASA

... out-of-date shareholder-related activities. The highlight of the statement released by Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, was the proposed removal of the '100 member rule'. This rule requires companies to hold expensive extraordinary ...

More draft FSR regulations released

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, has released draft regulations implementing a number of proposed refinements to Financial Services Regulation (FSR). The draft regulations seek to better define the distinction between retail ...

Gov to refine FSR by year end

... hopes to have in place its refinements to the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act by the end of the year, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Chris Pearce told an IFSA member lunch yesterday. "To my mind FSR is a basically sound framework. But I ...

Government releases FSR refinements

... participants, consumers and the report furnished by the government to the Financial Sector Advisory Council. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce says, "The refinements will give the industry increased flexibility that is inherent ...