
Legislation to introduce a fiduciary duty for financial advisers – akin to Australia’s FOFA best interests requirement – has been stalled in the US House of Representatives.
The proposal was an offshoot of the Dodd-Frank reforms spearheaded by the Obama administration following the global financial crisis.
A Greens senator who was a key agitator for the royal commission has defended his reasoning in pushing for the inquiry, but conceded that it’s not c...
APRA’s sweeping changes to income protection policies are set to force more claimants back to work sooner, as the life insurance industry faces more...
The latest enforcement update from ASIC has noted that court cases brought by the regulator in the six months to December last year under its 'why not...