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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....
Policy & Regulation
The securities regulator has banned Mark Menzies from providing advice for four years following an investigation which found he had manipulated the price of 'MINI' warran...
Policy & Regulation
The regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Commonwealth Financial Planning and BW Financial Advice for charging fees to customers for advice reviews that ...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has released draft legislation allowing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to recoup its costs from industry at the rate of $175....
Superannuation
Spaceship Financial Services and Tidswell Financial services have each paid a $12,600 penalty, following an Australian Securities and Investments Commissions investigatio...
Financial planning
The Australian Banker’s Association has backed extracting product recommendations from the delivery of advice....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been urged not to allow the newly-formed Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name and shame relatively l...
Policy & Regulation
ASIC is continuing to bring SMSF auditors under greater scrutiny with the regulator making two disqualifications this week for a failure to report legislative contraventi...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ANZ, following a finding by the regulator that the bank had failed to pr...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission sees breach reporting as an integral part of industry professionalism....
Policy & Regulation
The regulator has placed significant restrictions upon AFS licence holders that hold client money for trading in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives....
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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...