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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned Colin James Oberg from providing financial services after he withdrew over $1.55 million of client funds without permission....

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Financial planning

Participants in the Australian Securities Exchange and Chi-X markets will be required to report any suspicious reporting activity under ASIC's new market integrity rules....

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Superannuation

ASIC has moved against two unlicensed SMSF advice firms after finding they misled clients about their investments....

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Financial planning

IOOF's offer to purchase Plan B at a 33 per cent premium was cited by the Plan B board as a major factor in its decision to unanimously recommend the takeover....

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Financial planning

After taking more than $150,000 from 100 of his clients, Mayfield-based risk agent Phillip Paddison has received a permanent ban from the financial services industry, ASI...

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Financial planning

Cyre Trilogy has resorted to contacting financial planners to try and force APGF to hand over the register for one of a number of trusts the pair have been battling over....

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Financial planning

An unlicensed Sydney-based financial planner has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

Association of Financial Advisers looks to take facilitative approach on implementation of the Future of Financial Advice regulations....

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Financial planning

It is highly unlikely that 37 investors who lost approximately $680,000 in a Gold Coast-based investment scam will ever recover their money, according to ASIC....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...

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Financial planning

One of the men who led the Timbercorp Growers Group through a number of legal battles, Chris Garnaut, has written to ASIC raising issues around actions taken by the Respo...

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Financial planning

ASIC has reminded the industry that advertising campaigns will be closely watched and regularly reviewed....

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Financial planning

A South-Australian based financial planner has pleaded guilty to one count of deception and two counts of dishonest dealings with documents....

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Financial planning

ASIC has formed an agreement with New Zealand's FMA which will allow advisers trained in Australia to have their qualifications recognised in New Zealand and vice versa....

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Financial planning

A former director of a South Australian insurance broker has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on 88 charges of dishonesty following an investigation by ASIC....

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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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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