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CCIV consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... Investments Commission Act 2001 and the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 are also up for consultation. Finally, the tax legislation proposed is aiming to ensure the tax treatment of CCIVs broadly aligns with the existing treatment of attribution ...

Xinja funds platform for growth

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... its minimum goal in nine hours. Its first campaign is still the most successful campaign since government neobank legislation, passing its minimum goal within 18 hours and raising $2.7 million in January 2018. Since then, Xinja now holds 23,000 members ...

AFSL super options under the lens

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... previous call for the Government to rename the term 'general advice' defined under the Future of Financial Advice legislation. "This term has led many consumers to think they are receiving advice relevant to their personal situation when they ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... have something that performs really well in high inflation and low inflation environments," he said. "If it becomes legislation, we will comply with that. But at the moment our member base has been well served by our advice business and the current suite ...

Adviser exam draft legislation released

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority released draft legislation for the adviser examination, including what it will cost to sit the assessment. Following consultation, FASEA has determined the exam will be a 3.5 hour supervised test ...

FASEA to assess professional advice designations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... for the minimum CPD requirements for technical competence match that of professionalism and ethics. Under the draft legislation, a minimum of just five hours is required for technical competence compared to nine hours for professionalism and ethics. ...

New Bill bolsters retirement income

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... retirement income has been tabled before Parliament. Introduced in Parliament on November 29, the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Supporting Retirement Incomes) Bill 2018 proposes three main measures to lifetime income streams, the work ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... comparative data so they could more easily compare options for investing their retirement savings. "Constant erosions to the legislation and for-profit super providers being let off the hook has been at an enormous cost to consumers who are effectively ...

FASEA exam is not fair: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... Act, financial advice construction and applied ethics. Two days later, FASEA released its draft degree requirement legislation, proposing that an existing adviser has a graduate diploma of eight subjects as a maximum requirement. The minimum requirement ...

Read the whole thing: FASEA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield urged advisers and stakeholders to ensure they read the authority's draft legislation in its entirety to avoid further confusion. Addressing the 2018 FPA Congress in Sydney this morning, Glenfield encouraged delegates ...