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The former director of United Global Capital has received a decision from the Administrative Review Tribunal regarding an appeal of his 10-year ban from providing financi...
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Sequoia Financial Group has revealed the scale of complaints lodged with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority relating to its role in the Shield Master Fund and ...
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The Financial Advice Association Australia has stated it is “working closely” with the Financial Services Minister, Daniel Mulino, to remount the inquiry into Dixon Advis...
Financial planning
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has received more than 100,000 complaints for the second year running, with investment and advice complaints rising 18 per c...
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Multiple industry organisations have shared their thoughts on AFCA’s proposed rules amendment, supporting the idea of firms being named publicly when they fail to comply ...
Financial planning
Advisers may think they are being compliant with the regulation but for their clients, it is often communication that can cause the biggest headache in their adviser rela...
Financial planning
Attempts to simplify advice documentation are unlikely to succeed unless advisers are confident they can produce shorter documents without fear of regulatory penalisation...
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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Perth financial services firm following payments to its clients by the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort after a failed managed investme...
Financial planning
AFCA has confirmed United Global Capital’s membership of the body will not be extended to accept further complaints, avoiding a repeat of the Dixon Advisory scenario....
Financial planning
AFCA’s Shail Singh has encouraged financial advisers, who are often the first to hear about examples of misconduct, to speak up and report such activity if they seek self...
Financial planning
AFCA remains firm on its stance that industry failures occurring in the financial advice sector are fundamentally an advice issue, rather than a product issue....
Financial planning
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has shared how much its member fees will rise in the next financial year. ...
Financial planning
AFCA chief executive, David Locke, has shared a key way for its financial services member firms to reduce the volume of fees paid to the organisation, which it says are “...
Financial planning
With United Global Capital expected to constitute a substantial portion of CSLR compensation in FY25–26, what has AFCA ruled in its determinations on the company so far?...
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Contrary to expectations that Dixon Advisory would form the bulk of CSLR compensation, around three-quarters of the sum for FY26 relates to United Global Capital. ...
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