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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....
Financial planning
The case against Westpoint Group directors Norman Carey and Graeme Rundle has officially been dropped by the District Court of Western Australia. ...
Financial planning
If an investor does not understand a product they should not buy it, even if their financial planner recommends it, according to ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft. ...
Financial planning
ASIC claims it isn’t responsible for preventing investor losses and wants manufacturers to educate investors on complex products....
Financial planning
The expected 2013 Budget cuts to the Public Service may encompass APRA and ASIC....
Editorial
With shrinking planner interest and very few product suppliers left in the market, the reverse mortgage sector is screaming for attention, Andrew Tsanadis writes. ...
Editorial
Many advisers feel it’s time the investment train pulled away from the platform, but what sort of ride are they in for? Benjamin Levy reports....
Financial planning
Research houses will embark on a campaign of actively promoting their compliance with conflict of interest requirements before the 1 September deadline imposed by ASIC RG...
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