AFSL

Financial planning

Additional licence conditions have been placed on BGC Securities Australia in relation to its fixed income business....

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Life/Risk

Legislation surrounding the regulation of claims handling may have insurers and related parties look to fall under a single Australian Financial Services License to ease ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments commission has cancelled the Australian financial service licence of KP International Group Australia due to resignation of all ...

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken further steps to wind up Chris Marco’s alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has granted planning licensees a three-year exemption from the requirements to have planners sign up to a code-monito...

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed additional conditions to improve governance and conflicts management after considering Royal Commission concerns....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is consulting on draft regulations and legislation to remove the Corporations Act exemption for funeral insurance policies....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants has emerged at the head of a new push to reinstate the Accountants’ Exemption....

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Financial planning

The Queensland-based firm has until February 2020 to comply with outstanding obligations....

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Policy & Regulation

Platinum Perpetual Globe Private Wealth has lost its Australian financial services licence after charges brought by Western Australian police....

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Financial planning

Following a remediation program Suncorp has compensated 4,000 GuardianFP clients....

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Features

The financial services regulator responded to Royal Commission criticism with a ‘why not litigate?’ approach. Jassmyn Goh finds out what this means for advisers and how t...

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Financial planning

The firm will acquire Count Financial from Commbank for $2.5 million....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...

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People & Products

ClearView’s licensee solutions subsidiary, LaVista Licensee Solutions has reported the growth in clients’ numbers which is helped by self-licensing trend....

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