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Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared that just because behaviour is lawful does not make it an excuse where consumer detriment is concerned....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....
Financial planning
The Federal Court has ordered Westpac to pay a $3.3 million penalty for its involvement in setting the BBSW in 2010. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will not be pressing to ban life/risk commissions at least until after it has reviewed the effective...
Superannuation
Commercial property lender Thinktank has urged regulators and the Government not to ban the use of limited recourse borrowing arrangements within SMSFs....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made clear it believes product manufacturers should not seek to dictate to advisers under new financial product d...
Superannuation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has openly questioned the value of superannuation funds spending money on advertising their default products and call...
Policy & Regulation
A Melbourne-based financial services and credit business has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay penalties of just under nine million for multiple breaches of obliga...
Policy & Regulation
The Queensland Supreme Court has made ex parte orders regarding the Goldsky Global Access Fund, following an investigation by ASIC in which it was assisted by its America...
Policy & Regulation
Deakin Business School associate professor, Adrian Raftery has raised questions about whether the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has met its financial f...
SMSF
The regulator has disqualified Oscar Altavilla from being an approved auditor of SMSFs following breaches of independence and auditing standards....
Financial planning
Dishonestly using his position to gain benefits in the amount of $800,000 has seen a former Gold Coast financial adviser sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by th...
Policy & Regulation
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...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended and deregistered 101 self-managed superannuation fund auditors due to audit quality....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...