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Financial adviser reference checks under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
ASIC has released a consultation paper seeking feedback on reference checking protocols for financial advisers and mortgage brokers. Requiring financial advisers to have reference checks was one of the recommendations to come out of the Royal Commission. ...

ASIC opens consultation on scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is calling on financial advisers to provide feedback to its consultation paper on affordable scaled advice. As previously announced last month, ASIC's latest consultation paper, Promoting access ...

NZ looks to recognise qualified Aussie advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... standards of competence, knowledge and skill that will apply in New Zealand under the code, the FMA wrote in its consultation paper. "There is demand from time to time from individual Australian financial advisers to work in New Zealand," the FMA said. ...

ASIC reviewing risk advice, pushes for scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... advice more accessible, affordable and 'bite-sized' to meet consumer demand. The regulator will be releasing a consultation paper later in the year to understand the impediments advisers face in providing affordable limited advice. The consultation comes ...

Lifespan adds MDAs to BT Panorama

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... $35.28 billion followed by separately managed accounts (SMAs) at $28.06 billion. ASIC was expected to put out a consultation paper on MDAs last year but in March this year, said it had been delayed as it recalibrated regulatory priorities to focus on ...

ASIC delays RG97 again

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... continue to develop its proposals on disclosure by platforms. "In the first instance, ASIC proposes to issue a consultation paper responding to the recommendations made by the external expert in REP 581 on platforms and feedback previously provided by ...

CFA Institute call for feedback on new standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
The CFA Institute is seeking feedback from the professional investor community on a consultation paper for a proposed disclosure standard for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments products. The new standard aims to focus on the disclosure ...

What to expect from the Retirement Income Review

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... superannuation. "An area we think the review will certainly look at is, superannuation tax breaks. We saw in the consultation paper, tax breaks are skewed towards high income earners which is arguably [at odds with] the purposes of super, particularly ...

ASIC releases weekly regulatory tracker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
ASIC has launched a new weekly regulatory tracker to assist users during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tracker lists and includes links to all new and updated regulatory guides, information sheets, reports and consultation papers issued by ASIC and published ...

ASIC demands compliance despite COVID-19

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... projects of the resources required to meet their original timetables. Some projects, such as ASIC's RG97 consultation paper on platform fees, will continue to be worked on in the background, but will not be published "until further notice".