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Green Renaissance in Australia
Insight 08 Jun 2016

After more than three years of inertia, the Australian renewable energy industry is finally showing signs of a resurgence ...

ASIC seeking feedback on electronic disclosure proposals
Insight 17 Nov 2014

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is seeking feedback on proposals to help facilitate the increased use of electronic means of providing disclosure for financial products and services The proposals include new class order relief to facilitate the increased use of multimedia ...

Peer-to-peer lending - a disruptive threat to banks?
Insight 05 Dec 2014

The expansion of peer to peer lending in Australia will likely be a disruptive force for both banks and broader commercial stakeholders ...

Will Australia serve up a Chilean-style super system?
Insight 05 Feb 2015

The Financial System Inquirys final report was blunt in its assessment of the current state of Australias super system noting that the superannuation system is not operationally efficient due to a lack of strong price-based competition The Inquirys concern with super fees and costs led to one of the ...

Indirect costs - where to from here for superannuation trustees?
Insight 05 Mar 2015

As many in the superannuation and managed investments industries are well aware there has been a number of significant changes to the manner in which indirect costs will need to be calculated and disclosed in PDSs that are on issue after 1 January 2016 While parts of the industry are continuing to ...

What do smoked fish have to do with retirement incomes?
Insight 05 Feb 2015

The final report of the Financial System Inquiry recommended that APRA-regulated superannuation trustees be required to offer a comprehensive income product for retirement This rather modest recommendation in the final report stands in stark contrast to the retirement phase policy options canvassed ...

Mixed reactions to changes to new CBD height limits
Insight 06 Oct 2015

The Melbourne Planning Scheme has recently been amended to introduce mandatory built form controls to the central business district and Southbank area Managing Associate Meg Lee and Associate Kate Kirby report on the changes and on the reactions of key stakeholders ...

Sizing up options for better apartments
Insight 15 May 2015

Victorian Planning Minister Richard Wynne has made his views on apartments known through comments to the media and at industry events about small apartments where he can touch the ceiling and where the shower is over the toilet Mr Wynne has now released a discussion paper on better apartments ...

Attribution MITs - why try to fix something that wasn't broken?
Insight 06 May 2015

The exposure draft Bill for the taxation of 'attribution managed investment trusts' has been received with much derision. We consider the key implications ...

Improving the role of the Appointed Actuary
Insight 06 Sep 2016

APRA is seeking to improve the role of the Appointed Actuary in general and life insurance companies and has proposed some reforms in a discussion paper released earlier this year ...

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