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Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) senior executive Shane Tregillis, who was closely involved with the development of ASIC policy papers in response ...

Financial planning

AMP has responded to media speculation that it has been in discussions regarding a merger with the National Australia Bank....

Financial planning

Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...

Financial planning

Harts subsidiary Cardinal Financial Services has vowed to fight the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over its decision to revoke its dealers licenc...

Financial planning

Financial planning group Harts Australasia has taken another hit after a subsidiary of the group had its dealers licence revoked by the Australian Securities and Investme...

Financial planning

Beseiged financial services entrepreneur Rodney Adler is to sell his stake in Financial Services Partners, a group which has interests in three dealer groups, NOW Financi...

Financial planning

ASIC takes action against ex-GIO directors...

Financial planning

ASIC effectively shut down Chapel Road when it revoked the dealer group’s licence in May. However, concerns about a number of other dealer group’s compliance procedures o...

Financial planning

The actions of Chapel Road and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have temporarily settled as the two wait for an appeal to be held later this ye...

Financial planning

The Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a Western Australian finance broker as the WA Government announced the terms of reference...

Financial planning

In recent weeks, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken a hard line against some of the industry’s most high profile dealer groups....

Financial planning

OAMPS Insurance Brokers executive director Kingsley Lamont has resigned from the group’s board and will not act as a director for the next three years....

Financial planning

In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....

Financial planning

Wattle Group investment scheme founder Geoffrey Robert Dexter has received a 10-year jail sentence for his part in the investment scam that rocked the investment industry...

Financial planning

An Adelaide adviser has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for falsifying documents offered to an ASIC investigation....

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