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The Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin has been asked what it takes for an adviser to be expelled from his organisation....

Financial planning

The Federal Court has ordered the wind up of an illegal investment scheme known as the VKK Investments Unit Trust and the trustee and operator of that scheme, Gem Managem...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Court has ordered the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to wind up an illegal investment scheme, VKK Investments Unit Trust, and its trustee an...

Policy & Regulation

The Turnbull Government will strengthen criminal and civil penalties for corporate and financial misdeeds, following revelations of staggering misconduct in this week’s R...

Policy & Regulation

A NSW company director has been given a 12-month suspended sentence for carrying on a financial services business without an AFS licence....

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Senior Commonwealth Bank executive, Marianne Perkovic has faced stern Royal Commission questioning over the timing of Commonwealth Financial Planning’s breach reporting o...

News

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a statement specifying that it has been and is still investigating AMP’s conduct with respect to fees for ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a former Suncorp financial services adviser for four years....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned former GWM Adviser Services adviser, Grant Desmond Taylor, from providing financial services....

Policy & Regulation

Former financial adviser of the Salisbury Group and AMP affiliate, Charter Financial Planning Limited, Trevor William Martin, has been charged with dishonestly obtaining ...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Union has shown concern that “systemic and cultural problems” in the big banks have led to poor advice outcomes, following revealing evidence from ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accused financial services licensees of wanting to make clients actively opt-in to the remediation process around...

Policy & Regulation

The regulator said it has completed a compliance review and remediation program, and removed additional licence conditions, for Total Financial Solutions Australia....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it does not have enough information to know about inappropriate payments attaching to direct life sales....

Financial planning

AMP will be the first financial advice group to give testimony before the Royal Commission as it enters its round two hearings today....

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