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Financial planning

ASIC’s senior executive leader Ged Fitzpatrick has defended the role of fast-tracked pre-election regulatory change in the wake of RG148....

Superannuation

SPAA has welcomed ASIC Commissioner Greg Tanzer’s acknowledgement of the important role advisers play in the SMSF sector....

Financial planning

Former Opes Prime Stockbroking director Julian Smith has been found not guilty of dishonestly breaching his duties as director in the Victorian Supreme Court. ...

Financial planning

FOFA regulations require planners to outline platform and investment choices in SOAs....

Financial planning

ASIC to keep watching brief for 18 months over Anne Street Partners Financial Services....

Funds management

Pre-election national economy talk is adding to the growing level of pessimism surrounding household finances and savings, research suggests. ...

Superannuation

ASIC will examine the underlying costs of operating a SMSF in next steps of its SMSF taskforce. ...

Financial planning

Bradley Thomas Sherwin, the bankrupt chairman of Wickham Securities, has been banned from the financial services industry for more than two and a half years....

Funds management

ASIC has placed interim stop orders on the product disclosure statements (PDSs) and associated advertising of two investment schemes of which Trilogy Funds Management is ...

Financial planning

Planners encouraged to assess research house compliance with new regulatory standard....

Financial planning

Following a run-in with ASIC and a departure of its co-founder and managing director Darren Pawski, troubled dealer group WealthSure has rolled out a new strategy to buil...

Editorial

With Parliament prorogued and the advice reform agenda incomplete, many in the financial services industry are left wondering ‘what now?’, writes Cecilia Storniolo....

Superannuation

ASIC’s SMSF taskforce finds some disturbing features within low-balance SMSFs....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....

Financial planning

Following calls by the FPA for industry to work together in raising awareness around the benefits of financial advice, both ASIC and the FOS have given their support to F...

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