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Financial planning
The FAAA is hopeful that it can achieve co-regulation by 2030, acting as a stepping stone towards its ultimate goal of a fully self-regulated financial advice profession ...
Financial planning
ASIC data shows the number of smaller AFSLs with less than $50 million in revenue has increased by 25 per cent in the past year, but the regulator believes they are still...
Financial planning
The third quarter of 2024 saw the first positive increase in adviser numbers for 12 months, according to the latest quarterly Musical Chairs report, with new entrants ove...
Financial planning
ASIC has shared the percentage of breach reports related to financial advice in FY24, noting increased reporting by smaller AFSLs....
Financial planning
ASIC has conducted a report into how AFSLs are starting to use artificial intelligence in their practices and possible areas where they could come unstuck from a governan...
Financial planning
Questions have been raised regarding the viability of the current Australian Financial Services licensing regime, and the role that licensees have to play in monitoring a...
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based advice firm and is aware it had recommended investments that included the now-liquidated Global Capital Property Fund an...
Financial planning
The regulator has cancelled the AFSL and credit licence of liquidated Ultiqa Lifestyle Promotions following a $19,000 unpaid AFCA determination that was paid by the CSLR....
Financial planning
Head of client partnerships at GBST, Ashley Mahadeea, has left the business after seven years to join My Dealer Services, which helps advisers become self-licensed. ...
Funds management
The global financial services firm has taken on a second AFSL as it looks to capitalise on the high-net-worth market in Australia....
Expert Analysis
One of the apparently happy outcomes of QAR Tranche 1 was the introduction of relief from having to provide a Financial Services Guide but it turns out this was not all i...
Financial planning
Having divested its advice business in August, AMP is undergoing restructuring in at least four other departments amid a cost simplification program....
Funds management
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a $250 million Sydney fund manager, one of two AFSL cancellations announced by the corporate regulator....
Financial planning
ASIC has shared data on its licensing activity during the 2023–24 financial year, including how many were cancelled or suspended....
Financial planning
Sydney-based financial advice firm Sherlock Wealth has announced it is now operating under its own AFSL, one week after Andrew Sherlock took over as its chief executive....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...