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Financial planning

ASIC will seek to ban management figures in financial planning firms that are involved in advice failures....

Editorial

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac examines the advantages and disadvantages of vertically integrated advice compared to self-licensing and non-aligned advice....

Financial planning

While education has long been the yardstick by which advisers are measured, the bar has been raised and standards have become more widespread than ever before. As Jason S...

Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it is reviewing the latest industry funds advertising campaign....

Financial planning

ASIC bans Victorian-based financial adviser Allan Burt Vissenjoux from providing financial services....

Superannuation

ASIC urges superannuation funds to make their fees more transparent and comparable for members....

Financial planning

ANZ has agreed to send out gift cards to income protection insurance customers after ASIC concerns....

Superannuation

APRA has revised six of its superannuation reporting standards after complaints of confusion from key stakeholders....

Financial planning

ASIC cancels licence of CBA-purchased planning group nine months after deal concluded. ...

Financial planning

Regulator permanently bans former authorised representative and director of an investment trustee for misleading and deceptive conduct....

Financial planning

ASIC frustrated that the penalty regime imposed is less than the profit companies gain from poor behaviour, and that disclosure is no longer a 'disinfectant’ for law-brea...

Superannuation

ASIC and APRA jointly clarify the need for consistent information on MySuper products....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Financial Planning whistleblower Jeffrey Morris claims ASIC failed to act to cover its own incompetence....

Financial planning

Australia’s corporate regulator is severely limited in the range and severity of penalties it can hand out for wrongdoing - particularly compared to the US and UK, a revi...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 2 weeks ago

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

7 months 2 weeks ago

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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