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Financial planning

ASIC chair Greg Medcraft emphasises regulator’s enforcement efforts and states does best it can with resources to hand....

Financial planning

The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...

Financial planning

Two former Sydney brokers have been convicted of fraud following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has responded to its grilling at a Senate Committee by restating its compliance with the inquiry’s requests for more information. ...

Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC has lambasted ASIC and CommFP and signalled further quizzing of compensation arrangements....

Financial planning

The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....

Superannuation

ASIC grants relief to super fund’s advisory arm to reduce advisor exposure to personal liability....

Superannuation

The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Victorian finance broker Kieu Thi-Thanh Huynh from carrying out credit activities after...

Financial planning

The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....

Financial planning

Sentry Financial Services to write to SMSF clients after ASIC surveillance of corporate authorised representative...

Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a trader employed at Westpac Institutional Bank for creating fictitious trading entries and a false...

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) review supports the rule changes affecting dark trading made last year....

Financial planning

The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....

Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees are being warned that they will pay the price for poor product selection if they fail to ensure fund compliance under a n...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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