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Financial planning

Specialist lenders mortgage insurer Genworth has entered into a partnership with Lifeline to highlight the impacts of financial stress on families....

Financial planning

The 2004 class order issued under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) managed discretionary account (MDA) policy needs to be reviewed to bette...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that codes of conduct are only effective when those who sign up genuinely appreciate the consequences that follow a breach....

Funds management

ASIC is seeking penalties against the unlicensed operators of more than 12 offshore managed investment funds, which were found to comprise a single unregistered managed i...

Financial planning

Rapid growth of some financial services licensees has caused regulator concern due to many of them lacking support systems for larger numbers of advisers....

Policy & Regulation

There is no reason why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should not approve a code of conduct for a single licensee or dealer group, says Minter...

Financial planning

The chairman of ASIC, Greg Medcraft, has signalled his desire for the regulator to adopt a more proactive stance, effectively eschewing the approach of one of his predece...

Financial planning

The operators of three unlicensed financial services businesses have had their bank accounts frozen and been prevented from carrying on their activities after the Austral...

Financial planning

Shadow shops are comparable to taking a car off a production line and asking a panel how well it will drive, according to head of Lifeplan Funds Management Matt Walsh....

Financial planning

ASIC's 2011/12 annual report has outlined the amount of surveillance and enforcement action the regulator completed in the financial advice sector in the past year....

Financial planning

ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft has announced an internal taskforce which will look at the failure of Banksia....

Life/Risk

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell told Money Management there was enough life policy churning in the financial advice industry for the regulator to be concerned about the issu...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC is planning to release further information which would complement consultation papers regarding issues such as recommending products outside of an APL, fee disclosur...

People & Products

Professional Investment Services chief executive Peter Walther has outlined a plan to rid the group of the legacy compliance risk issues that dogged it under previous man...

Superannuation

The complexity of the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) space is rapidly outpacing SMSF auditors, according to Chan and Naylor director of financial planning David ...

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