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Bragg calls for another Financial System Inquiry, critiques ASIC, APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has called for another Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to address "structural problems" in the twin peaks of financial sector regulation, ASIC and APRA. In his speech to the Financial Services Council (FSC), Bragg argued that "clear ...

ASIC proposes five-year extension to DDO

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023
... was originally set for a two-year period. DDO was introduced following a recommendation from the 2019 Financial System Inquiry to compel firms to design consumer-centric financial products and optimise distribution strategies. The regulator said it intends ...

Giving hope: Recent regulatory wins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... the not-for-profit sector, last July, the Office for Women released a new resource, Guide to prevention and action on financial abuse within the financial services sector, aimed at helping the financial services sector prevent and address financial abuse ...

Senate inquiry to scrutinise proposed franking credit rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
... franking credits, which target share buybacks and capital raisings. In February, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones introduced the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No.1) Bill 2023. The purpose of the Bill is to ...

Treasury releases Quality of Advice Review final report

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... Statutory Best Interests Duty. The 267-page final report, released today, includes 13 primary recommendations for making financial advice more affordable and accessible. Chief among the recommendations, and flagged in the earlier proposals, is the introduction ...

The future of defined contribution asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... said. "While participants have traditionally been defaulted into a single balanced allocation, ever since the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, strategists have been contemplating personalisation. The thinking now is that super funds need to offer ...

Review of ASIC funding model begins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... the review. The ASIC Industry Funding Model commenced in July 2017, following a recommendation of the Financial System Inquiry that the government introduce a cost recovery model for the regulator. "The IFM is intended to meet the Australian government's ...

UK regulator appoints Camille Blackburn to leadership team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... Westpac's institutional bank and as a principal advisor to Commonwealth Treasury during the Australian Financial System Inquiry. In more recent years she was chief compliance officer at Aviva Investors and was chair of the Investment Association's ...

ASIC considering more action on Sterling collapse

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... to take more action in a bid to protect consumers. Speaking at the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on February 11, ASIC chair John Longo confirmed that two major recommendations are under consideration. The first ...

Inquiry criticises gaps in CSLR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... the protection of certain investors, a parliamentary inquiry heard. In discussing the Standing Committee on Economics Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2021 last week, SMSF Association deputy chief executive Peter Burgess ...
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