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Life insurance, conflicted remuneration and commissions
Insight 03 Nov 2016

The Bill to amend the conflicted remuneration provisions in the Corporations Act for life insurance has been introduced into Parliament a second time and draft regulations have been released for comment However we struggle to know how to describe them because the changes seem to have conflicting ...

Mandatory margining
Insight 07 Feb 2017

Late last year APRA released the implementation schedule for its long-awaited Prudential Standard CPS 226 Margining and risk mitigation for non-centrally cleared derivatives ...

The beginning of the end of the unit trust's monopoly? A look at corporate CIVs
Insight 04 Sep 2015

The Board of Taxations report on tax arrangements applying to collective investment vehicles advocates extending tax neutrality to three additional collective investment vehicles corporates modelled on the Luxembourg SICAV limited partnerships and common contractual funds In this issue we examine ...

Managed investment trusts exposure draft legislation: impacts on funds management industry
Insight 15 Apr 2015

Exposure draft legislation to implement the long-awaited changes to the tax regime for managed investment trusts has been released The amendments are lengthy and complicated and will require systems changes and careful review of trust deeds and constitutions Although the new regime will apply ...

Regulating bonuses: will Australia be next?
Insight 05 Aug 2015

The UKs Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority released rules in June this year to further tighten what are already fairly onerous restrictions on the payment of bonuses to staff in banks building societies and certain big investment firms The worlds financial regulators ...

Broadening approved product lists - would it really achieve anything?
Insight 05 Aug 2015

In his report earlier this year on retail life insurance advice John Trowbridge recommended that every advice licensee include at least half of the 13 relevant life insurers on its approved product list The Assistant Treasurer has since indicated the Government may consider measures to widen APLs by ...

ASIC's enforcement powers may receive a boost
Insight 05 Feb 2015

In preparing its Final Report the FSI has clearly paid close attention to the report of the Senate Economics References Committees Report into ASICs performance and its recommendations designed to strengthen ASIC through a combination of better funding an enhanced regulatory toolkit and higher ...

Should APRA's prudential standard-making powers extend to directors' duties?
Insight 05 Nov 2014

In recent times APRA has been active in prescribing duties for directors of the institutions it regulates In light of what has happened it is worth asking should the question of directors duties be excluded from APRAs prudential standard-making powers ...

ACCC releases draft Consumer Data Right Rules for consultation
Insight 15 Apr 2019

In preparation for the implementation of the first phase of the Consumer Data Right on 1 July 2019 the ACCC has released draft CDR Rules for consultation The draft rules detail how the CDR will function across all designated sectors in practice including how data is to be shared the criteria for ...

Designing effective remediation programs
Insight 19 Sep 2016

ASIC issued Regulatory Guide 256 Client review and remediation conducted by advice licensees late last week In short RG 256 says an Australian financial services licensees duty to provide financial services efficiently honestly and fairly means they have to take responsibility for the consequences ...

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