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The Financial Planning Association has upgraded its consumer-facing website in a move it says is designed to help Australians make informed financial decisions....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....

Policy & Regulation

Despite FOFA reforms now being imminent, there are several regrettable reasons many businesses are using to delay addressing the changes, according to a paper from PwC an...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....

Financial planning

ASIC has released a consultation paper outlining new requirements for managing conflicts of interest in relation to proof of debt schemes....

Financial planning

ASIC's recent scaled advice consultation paper does a fantastic job of clarifying how scaled advice will work in practice but leaves one significant gap, according to MyA...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Lion Advantage and banned its chief executive David Hickie from providing financial services for two years...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued guidance to promoters of 'crowd funding' in order to provide clarity on arrangements that may fall ...

Financial planning

ASIC targets securities dealers over mis-selling and inadequate advice....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC signals it will apply the same rules to both scaled and holistic advice....

Financial planning

The financial services regulator has identified conflicts of interest present in asset consultant business models, which it said needed to be managed properly....

Financial planning

Opposition puts regulators and industry funds on notice referencing parliamentary accountability and competitive neutrality....

Financial planning

ASIC cancels credit licence and warns on need for EDR scheme membership....

Financial planning

Financial planning groups are restructuring salary models to make sure their planners are rewarded after the ban on commissions officially comes in on 1 July 2013....

Claims that SMSFs have no recourse against fraud and theft are simply not true, according to SPAA....

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