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Financial planning

ASIC’s new cost recovery levy could reduce the services licensees offer if they cannot afford to pay multiple levies, according to The Fold Legal....

Financial planning

Brisbane-based former financial planner, Neil Bruce has been banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is looking to crackdown on financial services licensees seeking to avoid their obligations by claiming personal advi...

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, Greg Medcraft has canvassed extending the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to other financial services industr...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants the power to dig through the managerial layers to ban the real culprits....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed soft dollar arrangements together with ‘profit sharing’ remain a factor for insurance within super mand...

Financial planning

Ex-AMP Financial Planning adviser, Daniel Joseph Noonan has been permanently banned by ASIC after he misappropriated $2.5 million. ...

Financial planning

Some miscreant financial planners may have left the planning industry and thus avoided prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but face actio...

Financial planning

The AFA has seriously questioned the value of ASIC’s oversight of codes of conduct, noting that the FOFA ‘opt-in’ code took years and is the only one in existence....

Financial planning

Financial adviser, Travis Byron McLean, has been banned from providing financial services for five years after failing to comply with financial services laws. ...

Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....

Superannuation

ASIC has disqualified an SMSF auditor after he audited the fund of a close family member and breached audit evidence requirements....

Financial planning

A former mortgage broker from ALC Group has been sentenced to more than eight years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to deception....

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