Australia

Tax & Regulation | 19 Mar 14

Arthur Sinodinos, the Australian government official who was one of the main proponents of a plan to weaken FOFA, Australia’s recently-enacted financial services reforms package, is to “stand asidefollowing revelations about his connection to an ICAC [Independent Commission Against Corruption] inquiry in New South Wales”, The Australian is reporting today.

Tax & Regulation | 13 Mar 14

The man behind plans to make major changes to Australia’s answer to RDR, assistant treasurer Arthur Sinodinos, took to Australian national television Tuesday night to discuss the controversial plans, and revealed that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission would be tasked with monitoring the changes, if they go ahead.

Tax & Regulation | 17 Feb 14

Special interest and consumer groups in Australia have begun to speak out over a government plan to make significant changes to the country’s recently-enacted package of investor protection laws, which were among the first globally to include a ban on the use of commissions as payment for providing financial advice.

Tax & Regulation | 9 Feb 14

Financial planners in Australia will “once again be able to earn commissions for selling a wide range of investment products” if a government plan to “water down investor protection laws” goes through, one of the country’s leading financial publications reported over the weekend.

Profiles & Comment | 14 Aug 13

In the wake of last week’s winding up order by the Supreme Court of Queensland of LM Investment’s First Mortgage Income Fund, the Advisers Committee for Investors lashed out at what it said were “multiple failings" within Australia’s regulatory system, for having permitted the fund to get into the state it did…