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Financial planning

Almost 6,000 financial advisers have just two weeks to register with ASIC if they wish to continue to provide advice with the FAAA warning “a lot is at stake” if they rem...

Financial planning

The US Securities and Exchange Commission may have approved Bitcoin ETFs, but financial advisers in Australia will still face restrictions on advising on them....

Financial planning

A proposal for ASIC criminal trials to be introduced to the Federal Court has received backlash from the Law Council of Australia, which argues the judges lack sufficient...

Financial planning

The FAAA expects to see a reduced fee to sit the financial adviser exam once the proposed changes are implemented, with the current cost sitting steep at $1,500 per attem...

Financial planning

Four directors of Endeavour Securities and Linchpin Capital Group have been penalised by the Federal Court for multiple failings on a registered managed investment scheme...

People & Products

Money Management would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and looks forward to bringing you all the latest news in 2024. ...

People & Products

As the year comes to a close, Money Management has collated the top 10 most read stories of 2023 – from super fund performance to financial advice reforms....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has banned the former sole director and chief financial officer of Brisbane-based Acquire Strategic Advisers over misleading and deceptive conduc...

Superannuation

ASIC has sentenced former director Mudasir Mohammed Naseeruddin over four years imprisonment for ‘egregious conduct’ and dishonestly obtaining client funds from six inves...

Financial planning

A Gold Coast financial adviser who guaranteed his clients annual 8 per cent returns has been permanently banned from providing any financial services....

Funds management

ASIC has taken action against an asset manager for alleged greenwashing around false and misleading statements about a carbon emission exclusion screen....

Financial planning

A former Brisbane financial adviser, who was permanently banned by ASIC in April, has appeared in court charged with two counts of providing false or misleading informati...

Financial planning

ASIC has announced the results from the 23rd Financial Advisers Exam cycle held in November, following August’s highest pass mark of the year....

Financial planning

The Federal Court has appointed two corporate receivers of Brite Advisors to investigate the $1 billion client pension funds under its management since its assets were fr...

Financial planning

The FSCP has issued a registration prohibition order against a financial adviser until 2025 for misleading a client through a scaled advice model that excluded an SMSF in...

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