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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and Financial Planning Education Council have released for consultation a national financial planning curriculum that also calls for a ...

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted the enforceable undertaking of Sydney-based auditor Graham Bruce Abbott after he failed to comply with rotational requirements....

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former contracts for difference (CFD) dealer after it found that he had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct under a deregistered bus...

Policy & Regulation

The Future of Financial Advice reforms may have passed through the House of Representatives but there is plenty of unknown detail causing concern to the major association...

Superannuation

Cecile Apolinario explains the key issues and steps trustees need to address when starting a pension for a SMSF member....

Editorial

Mike Taylor reports that submissions to the Productivity Commission review of default superannuation funds under modern awards have raised important questions about the r...

Financial planning

Australia's current financial markets' regulatory structure gives it an advantage compared to the byzantine structures in other markets, according to Nick Sherry....

Financial planning

Australian investors holding term deposits could be costing themselves money by allowing automatic rollovers, according to comparison website, RateCity....

Financial planning

ASFA and the Institute of Actuaries join forces to point out a key flaw in ASIC's class order relief on superannuation forecasts....

Financial planning

Even if financial planners don't agree with the findings of ASIC's recent shadow shopper survey, they should consider attending upcoming workshops addressing the findings...

Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the licence of boutique advice firm Australian Performance Financial Planning for three months because the company has been put under the control of an...

Editorial

Despite its relatively small size, solid growth in recent years has made the exchange-traded fund (ETF) space the envy of managed funds and some of the other sectors. Fre...

Editorial

If auditors are, indeed, the eyes and ears of the regulators in the SMSF sector, Liz Westover writes that the new auditor registration regime will prove to be crucial as ...

Financial planning

The industry's existing codes of conduct will require 'pretty radical surgery' before ASIC is likely to deem them sufficient, says Mallesons senior associate Michael Math...

Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry may be obliged to dig deeper to fund the implementation of the Government's Future of Financial Advice changes as well as its Stronger Sup...

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