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Regulators in Productivity Commission firing line

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... to the Productivity Commission, the corporate and prudential regulators suffer from "confusing and opaque" conduct regulation arrangements for the superannuation system, noting "significant overlap" and a lack of delineation between APRA and ASIC. The ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... countries, as the barrier to doing so," she said. She called for G20 leaders to consider and ultimately commit to: Regulation that requires integration and disclosure of sustainability or ESG issues Strengthened policy design as unclear drafting that ...

FPA reviews disciplinary regulations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
After having its existing disciplinary processes questioned during the Royal Commission, the Financial Planning Association of Australia is introducing updated regulations from 1 January 2019. Conducted by FPA Conduct Review Commission (CRC) deputy ...

Industry dubious about one regulatory body: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... services framework is similar to the UK, which is overseen by three main regulators: the Bank of England (BOE); Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which is a division of the BOE; and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Singapore on the other hand ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Pension funds and asset managers are among those who could create $20 trillion in new wealth if the world economy transitions to zero carbon and zero waste policies, according to new research. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, who leads Macquarie University's ...

ASIC funding numbers released

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... financial system. "We have been working with industry to implement the new model and making public the cost of our regulation marks a significant milestone in this process," Armour said. "Our goal is ensuring a fair, strong and efficient financial system ...

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

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... the financial institutions that employ them - having been very successful in persuading governments to go light on regulation," Clarke said. "This panoply of self-interested exemption has arisen over time, incrementally and without any ostensible rationale ...

FPA honours top advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... plans to increase this figure, he said. De Gori announced the association has undertaken a review of its disciplinary regulation led by Dale Boucher, the current deputy chair of the FPA's Conduct Review Commission and former chair of Tax Practitioners ...

SelectingSuper honours super industry leaders

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... place too much emphasis on outcomes, but that we place too little on outcomes. The paradox, thanks to weak competition regulation in financial services is that low performing funds don't just survive, they thrive. "It's so perverse that if the ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... sufficient understanding of technologies and the impact they have on the sector currently. Nearly 60% believed that existing regulation wasn't sufficient to tackle issues stemming from AI. Baker McKenzie head of TMT for Asia Pacific Adrian Lawrence ...