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New AMIT rules
New legislation has been introduced into Federal Parliament that will replace the existing taxation regime for trusts which qualify as Attribution Managed Investment Trusts Partner Charles Armitage and Managing Associate Judith Taylor look at what is different from the original Exposure Draft ...
Raising professional standards of financial advisers
Following on from the reviews conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee and the Financial System Inquiry the Government delivered on its promises by releasing an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Professional Standards of Financial Advisers Bill 2015 the Bill late last year for ...
Court accepts market-based causation
Perhaps the most important unanswered question in Australian class action law has been how causation may be established in a shareholder class action After more than a decade of uncertainty the Supreme Court of NSW has ruled that shareholders can prove causation by establishing that the price of the ...
Life insurance remuneration draft regulations released
The Government has released an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Regulations 2016 The draft regulations provide some further detail to support the implementation of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Bill 2016 which ...
Personal Property Security regime commences in PNG
The commencement of the personal Property Security regime means an important changes to the companies transact business's report in Papua New Guinea. ...
Grizzly times ahead for banks
A consultation paper on the BEAR has been released confirming the Federal Governments intention to impose an executive accountability regime on banks and their subsidiaries that follows important elements of current international accountability regimes You have three weeks to provide your comments ...
Proposed reforms to staged development applications in NSW
An amendments to the planning legislation has been proposed by the NSW government to provide certainty of outcome for the public Partner 'Paul Lalich senior associate Dennis Smith and Law Graduate James Higgins report. ...
ASIC's report on member experience of superannuation - ASIC continues to set a high bar
ASIC Report 529 Member experience of superannuation released just a day before the Productivity Commission officially sets its sights on assessing the state of the superannuation system serves as a timely reminder of the ever-increasing expectations of the conduct and disclosure practices of ...
The BEAR roars into action
The Federal Government has released the exposure draft of the Treasury Laws Amendment Banking Executive Accountability and Related Measures Bill together with a draft Explanatory Memoradum This follows on from the release of the Banking Executive Accountability Regime BEAR consultation paper in July ...
Getting the deal through: Project Finance 2018
Allens Partners Michael Ryan and Ben Farnsworth discuss some of the issues relevant to project finance in an Australian context including security packages navigating the Personal Property Security Register and foreign investment issues in their contribution to this global project finance roundup ...