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ASIC has taken legal action against Fast Access Finance for engaging in unlicensed credit activities....
Superannuation
The Federal Opposition lodges questions on underlying costs of MySuper products....
Financial planning
Industry silent as public makes feelings on ASIC known. ...
Life/Risk
A Perth-based insurance broker has been permanently banned for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct....
Financial planning
The FOFA legislation once heralded was a long time coming – and with its implementation date has also arrived a raft of questions as to how parts of the legislation will ...
Financial planning
A recent Storm Financial settlement caused quite a bit of controversy and resulted in an appeal from the regulator. Milana Pokrajac finds many in the legal community deem...
Financial planning
Industry body Boutique Financial Planners has called for clear disclosure of licensee ownership after Roy Morgan research revealed a large percentage of consumers were no...
Financial planning
ASIC claims it had concerns about the quality of financial advice being delivered in Australia before the collapse of Storm and the Commonwealth FP enforceable undertakin...
Financial planning
Latest research shows up to half of clients using bank-aligned financial planners think their adviser is ‘independent’....
Financial planning
Perth securities dealer Stellar Securities has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled after it failed to comply with its financial requirement conditions...
Funds management
Australian Public Trustees (APT) has had its AFS licence cancelled after breaching a number of its financial and reporting obligations....
Financial planning
The regulator has put forward new proposals to update the record-keeping obligations for those who provide financial advice to retail clients. ...
Financial planning
The regulator has released a report in which it expressed concerns about the number of financial advice groups being owned by product issuers. ...
Financial planning
Two large banks have told the PJC that they do not impose sales targets on their financial planners, but revenue targets and adviser bonus structures are still in place....
Life/Risk
Adviser remuneration is only one part of the equation on life/risk churn, says AFA chief executive Brad Fox....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
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