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As it continues its discussions with industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the commencement of upcoming disclosure benchmarks...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that just four months out from an election, the political temperature is high and perceptions can skew reality....

Financial planning

Specialist accounting software provider MYOB has announced a new online portal for small business services that it claims will help accountants enhance their client relat...

Financial planning

The award of a premium to Storm Financial victims who bankrolled part of a class action against Macquarie Bank could encourage self-funded group litigation, a Brisbane si...

Financial planning

Former Lonsec Stockbroking Services managing director Norman John Graham has been convicted on two charges of insider trading and fined $30,000....

Financial planning

Charitable investment funds act like banks so they should be regulated as such, according to ASIC....

Money Choice director Matthew George had his PIPA membership suspended days after the regulator banned him from the industry and cancelled his firm’s credit licence....

Financial planning

The ACCC is conducting a public review into the proposed merger between Perpetual and The Trust Company....

Financial planning

The Salisbury Group (TSG), a planning business with 50 planners, has gone into administration following the recent closure of Australian Financial Services (AFS). ...

Financial planning

A British Virgin Islands-based company has consented to Federal Court orders preventing it from selling shares and providing financial services in Australia....

Editorial

As a result of RG79 section D, ‘Avoiding, controlling and disclosing conflicts of interest’, what has your firm changed, or what will it change, in terms of both its busi...

Editorial

Jack Flader, the US lawyer named as being connected to the Trio/Astarra collapse, now knows what it is like to be thrashed with a damp lettuce leaf. ...

Financial planning

Providing unlicensed SMSF advice was one of the reasons Money Choice had its licence cancelled and its director banned by ASIC....

Editorial

ASIC has established new competency standards around RG 146, but Cecilia Storniolo writes that there are many loose ends that need to be resolved before the ground rules ...

Financial planning

As expected, the Government has limited its Budget support for the financial services regulators....

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