NSW green slips rise
02 February 2009
NSW motorists face a hike of up to $70 a year for green slips so the NSW Government can cover an increase in insurance premiums...
02 February 2009
NSW motorists face a hike of up to $70 a year for green slips so the NSW Government can cover an increase in insurance premiums...
15 December 2008
Marsh Australia says insurance customers may be eligible for a big stamp duty refund after the NSW Supreme Court held the impost is not payable by foreign insurers...
15 December 2008
Opponents of insurance taxes have made their collective voice heard during the initial stages of the Federal Government’s wide-reaching review of taxation...
15 December 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has employed three new commissioners as the regulator doubles its top tier to cope with an extended workload...
15 December 2008
The Southport District Court has sentenced a Gold Coast man to a minimum 15-month jail term for fraudulent dealings including the use of false birth certificates to buy insurance…
15 December 2008
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will use a principles-based approach to encourage management behaviour that avoids risk-taking in financial institutions...
08 December 2008
Commercial insurance buyers in rural Victoria will pay nearly $1 in tax for every $1 of insurance premium following another hike in the fire services levy...
08 December 2008
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has invited discussion over the future of the central database used to record information on professional indemnity and public…
08 December 2008
General insurers have become de facto tax collectors for both state and federal governments, according to Zurich Australia CEO David Smith...
01 December 2008
The first of the 16 class actions filed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission against advisers involved in the collapse of Westpoint has been resolved...
01 December 2008
APRA’s role in maintaining a strict regulatory environment is only one factor that has helped Australia’s financial institutions avoid the worst impacts of the global economic crisis...
01 December 2008
Australia’s financial regulators are likely to keep the country in good stead as growth in gross domestic product weakens...
24 November 2008
The financial services industry has backed the Federal Government’s decision to tighten the regulation of credit ratings agencies and research houses...
24 November 2008
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped a charge against former HIH Insurance Chairman Geoffrey Cohen, ending proceedings led by ASIC against him...
24 November 2008
The Australian Safety and Compensation Council has concluded its final meeting by recommending further initiatives to reduce work-related fatalities in Australia...
17 November 2008
The Federal Government recently imposed licensing and reporting standards on credit ratings agencies...
17 November 2008
ASIC has permanently banned NSW broker Anastasia Hronopoulos from providing financial services after the regulator uncovered a series of dodgy deals...
17 November 2008
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is to publish two new insurance industry reports in line with its plans to modernise the collection of life insurance data...
17 November 2008
Yet another financial adviser has been banned over his involvement with Westpoint...
17 November 2008
Ernst & Young’s Global Insurance Centre has recommended the insurance industry and regulators use the current global financial crisis to drive a “constructive evolution of..."