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PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice to be binding and enforceable, and that a joint regulator taskforce is set up to make it more effective. ASIC and APRA should be members of the taskforce, with ASIC taking the lead, it recommended. ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... annually. Also on the insurance front, the Commission recommended the Federal Government to establish a joint regulator taskforce to advance the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice. Its aim is to monitor and report on funds adopting ...

MYEFO: Regulatory funding increases, Budget surplus doubles

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... Office (ATO) will receive more than $182 million over four years from 2019-20 to extend the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce - one that "targets the most serious crimes that present the highest risk to Australia's tax and superannuation systems." ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... erosion trade-off; Make super funds adopt the industry code, particularly if MySuper is offered; Establish an ASIC/APRA taskforce to monitor code adoptions, compliance and development (including providing guidance); and Launch an independent review of ...

ASIC to ramp up trustee visits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... formal response is formulated before Christmas. As part of a new initiative, ASIC has launched its Corporate Governance Taskforce that will conduct targeted reviews of large listed companies, aiming to identify good and bad practices. It will look at ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
The Serious and Financial Crimes Taskforce has helped put two men behind bars for laundering money and evading tax. Anthony Castagna and Robert Agius, both from New South Wales, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each. The pair used an ...

ASIC staff to investigate institutions from the inside

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... be embedded within Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, NAB, Westpac and AMP to monitor governance and compliance. Additionally, a taskforce dedicated to conducting a broad review into corporate governance will be established at a cost of $6.8 million. The taskforce ...

AFCA appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Tregillis. Before his appointment as ACNC assistant commissioner, charity services, Locke was the chief adviser to the ACNC Taskforce. He has played a key roles at ACNC since 2012. He has also worked in similar roles in the UK, where he had responsibility ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... business in Australia," Morrison said. Another throw forward measure announced today was setting up a Black Economy Taskforce, aimed to clamp down on $5.3 billion worth of taxes on unreported income in the next three years. Under it, cash payments of ...

Federal government responds to white collar crime Senate inquiry

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... into White Collar Crime set up in 2015, the government cited the 50 recommendations made by the ASIC Enforcement Review taskforce in December. It has agreed to 29 of the recommendations and agreed -in-principle to the rest. It will amend legislation ...