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Financial planning

The financial services industry has improved its practice in relation to the automatic rollover of term deposits, the regulator has found....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group will refund some of its BT Wrap and BT SuperWrap customers after it was discovered they had been paying adviser fees above that of disclosed percentage...

Financial planning

ASIC doubles NTA levels for custodians and IDPS providers ...

Financial planning

The Federal Court has given ASIC the green light to pursue Storm founders in court over the failure of the dealer group. ...

Life/Risk

Suncorp reports itself to ASIC and accepts life and general insurance compliance upgrade. ...

Financial planning

As we edge closer to 1 July 2013, Fiona Mackenzie encourages practices to look at how fit for FOFA they are and what they can do to become FOFA-ready....

Life/Risk

Choosi’s parent company Hollard Financial Services has agreed to change the way it promotes funeral insurance under the Real Insurance brand, as a result of concerns rais...

Superannuation

ASIC may have to explain to a Parliamentary Committee why, when its resources are stretched, it has expended effort reviewing the operations of an independent statutory b...

Financial planning

ASIC seeks industry input on a shift to higher knowledge and skills levels for planners. ...

Financial planning

ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....

Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...

Financial planning

Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....

Editorial

The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...

Editorial

When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...

Financial planning

A former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to 10 charges of providing false loan applications to lenders totaling almost $3.8 million....

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

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Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

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ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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