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Deakin Business School associate professor, Adrian Raftery has raised questions about whether the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has met its financial f...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to what can be learned from Europe’s MiFID II regulatory regime while pointing to further surveillance in...

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Nearly half of the respondents in a survey of over 1,400 investors by Plato Investment Management expect Labor’s proposed franking dividend reform to make them more relia...

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ANZ’s full-year cash profit has taken a hit as it seeks to move beyond wealth remediation and costs associated with the Royal Commission....

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Advisers and their clients have been put on notice to maintain a tighter focus on share trades with the Australian Taxation Office now capable of matching share trades ag...

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Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...

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A senior South Australian financial planner has warned a Parliamentary Committee that middle-class retirees will be most affected by the Federal Opposition’s franking cre...

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New research from Deloitte has revealed that, despite everything that has been heard at the Royal Commission, most people still trust their banks....

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The Law Council of Australia has urged the Government that it needs to amend proposed new financial product design and distribution laws to exclude intervention in produc...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a warning as credit representatives appear to be lagging on their obligations to join the Australian Finan...

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A university study commissioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed the deterrent effectiveness of enforceable undertakings....

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New Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton has vowed to eliminate the circumstances where the regulator can be perceived to have been ca...

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