Corps Act News Today

FAAA’s Sarah Abood expresses satisfaction at seeing the “real rubber hitting the road” with the implementation of the first phase of adviser reforms. Earlier this week, Minister for Financial

The American Climate Corps launched this week. It will put thousands of young people to work building stronger communities.

Colorado State University broke ground on a Peace Corps Tribute Garden earlier this spring. Nearly 2,000 CSU grads have volunteered with the international service agency since it began in the 1960s. However, the university’s relationship with the Peace Corps goes even deeper than that, the school helped plant the seeds for the corps.

Both the corporate and prudential cops have set about slimming down their regulatory burden on industry, but the APRA chair has said it will take time. ASIC and APRA chairs Joe Longo and Wayne Byres

The Advisers Association head has called on advice industry bodies and associations to work together ahead of the upcoming Federal election. In a new episode of the ifa show, Neil Macdonald said his p

Do new independence disclosures go far enough? Do new independence disclosures go far enough? An industry body is calling for asset-based fees to be recognised as conflicted remuneration and disclosed to clients, but concedes the government has shown little recent interest in addressing the issue. A A PIFA president Daniel Brammall said the industry association had been unsuccessful in its bid to amend royal commission legislation around annual renewals and independence disclosures to include a...

Heres What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work. Corbis via Getty Images Civilian Conservation Corps worker Carl Simon installs insulators on top of a telephone pole about 1940 in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even killed...

Federal Court judge to head Corps Act inquiry Federal Court judge to head Corps Act inquiry A Federal Court judge has been appointed to oversee the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) inquiry into the suitability of current financial services laws, as the government seeks to simplify what it terms an “overly prescriptive approach to regulation”. A A In a statement, the ALRC announced that Perth-based Federal Court judge Craig Colvin would oversee the review of the legislative framew...

Adviser outflows slow, zombie licences grow Adviser outflows slow, zombie licences grow Adviser outflows “took a breather” through the quarter in the face of more positive industry news and regulatory efforts. A A Total adviser numbers contracted by 388 (1.8 per cent) for the quarter, leaving the total population at 21,146 – significantly better than previous quarters, according to the latest Adviser Ratings Musical Chairs report, suggesting that advisers might be taking “a more positi...