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ASIC welcomes second ASX market resilience consultation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... industry consultation on improving market resilience, following the exchange's outage in November 2020. The consultation paper covers potential future ASX capabilities to enhance market resilience, with submissions to close on December 9. The paper is ...

UK regulator to inspect advice and guidance rules

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
... announcement shares a similar sentiment to Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR). In August the QAR consultation paper was released and outlined several substantial changes believed necessary to revitalise the advice sector, making it more ...

Final Royal Commission reforms to be tabled, YFYS review begins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... doing that we aren't introducing mechanisms that have unintended consequences." Questions included in the consultation paper include whether the use of actual return using strategic asset allocation affects risk-taking behaviour by super funds; does ...

ASIC extends binary options ban

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... using data from five licensed binary option issuers. The report highlights issues raised in submissions to Consultation Paper 362 Extension of the binary options product intervention order and retails ASIC's responses to those issues. In the 13 months ...

Active Super reaffirms commitment to regional members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
... Stockwell said: "Look, it all helps." Further, touching on the recent release of the Quality of Advice Review's consultation paper and the suggestion that super funds should be able to provide personal financial advice, Stockwell said it's too ...

Midwinter unveils new adviser tool

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... effort to produce a Statement of Advice." Interestingly, in the Quality of Advice Review's interim report and consultation paper released this week, chair Michelle Levy suggested removing the requirement for financial advisers to provide a Statement ...

A sensible roadmap: Industry responds to QAR paper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
The industry has welcomed Michelle Levy's draft reform proposals, saying the consultation paper released today provides "a sensible roadmap" and a way forward. The Quality of Advice Review consultation paper was released this afternoon, outlining ...

Focus on providing 'good advice': QAR draft proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... personal financial advice are just some of the proposed reforms contained in the Quality of Advice Review's consultation paper. Released today, the QAR lead Michelle Levy's consultation paper suggests removing the best interests duty, saying ...

Adviser standards consultation commences

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
Treasury has kicked off its review of adviser professional standards with a consultation paper that outlines its proposed new pathway for experienced advisers. The government's position has been that a minimum of 10 years' experience and a clean ...

Crypto asset reforms underway: Treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
... obligations for third party custodians of crypto assets and provide additional consumer safeguards. Also, a public consultation paper on 'token mapping' will be released soon. BTC Markets chief executive Caroline Bowler is pleased with the government's ...