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AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... Commission on "inducements" and how super funds entice businesses to choose them as a default fund for employees. "There has been law reform around inducements and we have been discussing with funds what those law reforms mean and we have been overseeing ...

ASIC quietly granted new access to phone taps

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... the regulator's status as a criminal law enforcement agency and allow it to conduct parallel investigations with the Australian Federal Police and other agencies. ASIC also wanted to avoid any situation where an agency that can intercept information ...

Calls for overhaul of AFSL system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... Australia (FPA) wants a professional registration for individual advisers to replace the current system. Currently, an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) is required to provide advice. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said the law should be ...

Call for pause on default insurance changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
A prominent law firm is calling for upcoming changes to default insurance within superannuation to be postponed, as the COVID-19 pandemic increases the chance Australians will need to rely on the cover automatically provided by their super fund. Slater ...

Regulators praise super law reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have jointly welcomed the proposed legislative reforms increasing the role of ASIC in the superannuation industry. The proposed changes ...

Class action accuses NAB of super rip-off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers today filed a class action on behalf of more than 330,000 National Australia Bank superannuation customers. The action relates to MasterKey Business Super and Personal Super account holders and accuses NAB of breaching its ...

Government ignored ASIC over LIC carve-out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... conflicted commission ban. According to documents published last week under a freedom of information request made by The Australian Financial Review, ASIC pleaded with the Coalition government not to expand the stamping fee carve-out in the FoFA laws ...

Colonial First State hit with second class action in less than a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... significant profits from retaining these commissions." Slater and Gordon Special Counsel Nathan Rapoport said in 2013 the Australian Government banned commissions to financial advisers for new members because it was clear they were not in members' ...

Retail fund faces class action on MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... needs, not their own." The conduct that is the subject of this case was a case study in the Financial Services Royal Commission. A lead plaintiff for the case, Lesley Coatman, said: "It's clear from both the Royal Commission and from the case Maurice ...

Grandfathered commissions ban passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... promptly on the Royal Commission implementation roadmap and delivering on Recommendation 2.4, which is expected to benefit Australian consumers." The law will come into effect from January 2021, meaning that from that date where a conflicted remuneration ...