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Financial planning

While the 'hard' implementation date for the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) regulation is 1 July 2013, one financial planner has been voluntarily complying with the re...

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Financial planning

The FPA remains a strong supporter of a complete ASIC-approved code of conduct, while the AFA claims an “opt-in specific” code would provide more freedom to financial pla...

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Financial planning

Former Lonsec managing director Norm Graham pleads guilty to insider trading charges....

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Financial planning

Kathryn Wardrobe outlines the steps for preparing your fee disclosure statement (FDS)....

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Financial planning

The regulator has provided a checklist of code content that would obviate the need for complying with opt-in....

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Financial planning

A new survey reveals how slowly financial services regulators are responding to politicians’ questions....

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Editorial

It is now nearly a month since the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced that the 2013 Federal Election would be held on 14 September – and despite her suggestions to ...

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Life/Risk

A group of financial advisers has taken to social media to raise concerns that insurance comparison website Choosi is misrepresenting its services to clients and leading ...

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Financial planning

Following "somewhat ambiguous" statements on grandfathering in Consultation Paper 189, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is set to release an up...

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Financial planning

ASIC’s market supervision report reveals the big name players subject to market disciplinary penalties....

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Editorial

With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...

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Financial planning

Suncorp confirms Vero is applying a ‘selective’ approach to approving directors and officers insurance to planning groups....

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Life/Risk

We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...

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Financial planning

A former Hogan and Partners stockbroker has been sentenced to four years in jail following an ASIC investigation into fraudulent and deceptive conduct....

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Financial planning

David Hobbs, who was described by ASIC as the ‘mastermind’ behind a $30 million Ponzi scheme, was handed the largest penalty in the regulator’s history....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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