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ASIC appeal upheld

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... between a person's dishonest or misleading conduct and a financial product or service is sufficient for the prohibitions to apply". The conduct included double charging clients advice fees, as well as receiving payments for advice directly into his bank ...

Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The government's announcement of the new JobTrainer package was met with calls to extend the existing JobSeeker and JobKeeper measures as devastating unemployment numbers were released. Unemployment has now hit 7.4%, the highest it has been in two decades ...

AMP advisers low priority for ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
Senator Deborah O'Neil has revealed she was told by ASIC that AMP's Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) agreements being altered and subsequently slashing the value of advice businesses was not a priority for the regulator. In a letter to the chair of the Parliamentary ...

ERS sees 300,000 repeat applications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... to the reporting week covered the week from June 29 to July 5. It included the end of the period for which members could apply for up to $10,000 for the 2019/20 financial year and the start of the period for which members could apply for up to $10,000 ...

ATO extends WFH deductions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... working from home to fulfil employment duties, not just carrying out occasional tasks like checking emails or taking calls can apply for the "shortcut" method. Taxpayers who have incurred additional running expenses as a result of working from home can ...

FSU secures super pay increases

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... underpayments. "Like all financial services entities we expect compliance with the Act and the industrial instruments that apply," she said. The FSU also negotiated pay rises of 6% over 2 years for NAB employees and 9% over three years for Bendigo Ba ...

ERS surges $7bn in a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Early Release of Super payments surged around $7 billion in the first week of July, according to Treasury estimates, but this may not be a reason to panic. Treasury estimates a further $7 billion was wiped from super funds as the second tranche of applications ...

APRA warns of ERS second wave

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... foreshadowed last week when the ATO website crashed due to the number of Aussies logging on to complete their tax return and apply for the second round of ERS. In addition, APRA said this may impact processing times for payments being made by funds. ...

LEI registrations double

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
Despite the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) registrations doubled in 2019/20, according to APIR Systems. APIR chief executive Chris Donohoe said in response to the increased demand APIR announced it was launching ...

COVID-19 stimulus continues

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... financial year now able to access a second sum. Eligible Australian and New Zealand citizens and permanent residents are able to apply online through the ATO to access up to $10,000 of their superannuation from 1 July 2020 until 24 September 2020.