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Financial planning

Former RetireInvest financial planner Glen Smyth has launched a new software product which could abandon the need for those in the lower end of the superannuation savings...

Financial planning

Former RetireInvest financial planner Glen Smyth has launched a new software product which could abandon the need for those in the lower end of the superannuation savings...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a former Westpac proper authority holder from acting as an investment advisor or represe...

Funds management

The Challenger International group has been forced by its auditor to seek an independent assessment of the methodology used to determine the value of its property assets....

Financial planning

The deadline to comply with the minimum standards of Policy Statement (PS) 146 have come and gone and from all accounts the industry has done well with most planners prov...

Financial planning

Forrest Knoll Nominees’ managed investment scheme has had a receiver appointed to it by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after the corporate wa...

Financial planning

Three months after the Financial Services Reform Act was passed, ASIC is still pushing its licensing message to the financial services industry to get organised and get c...

Financial planning

Investors in the string of exchange traded funds (ETFs) offered by State Street global Advisors (SSgA) on the Australian stock exchange have been granted an exemption fro...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has backed up its promise of taking a ‘hard line’ against solicitors’ mortgage schemes, appointing a liquidato...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released the final report of its investigation into solicitors mortgage schemes, calling for a beefed up r...

Financial planning

A former adviser with Professional Investment Services has made an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) not to act as an...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first ever license under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSR), with the first cab off the ra...

Financial planning

Thirty mortgage investment schemes managed by former Western Australian (WA) finance broker Knightsbridge Finance will be wound up under orders from the Supreme Court of ...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Consumer Protection special adviser Annette Donselaar will depart the watchdog early next year to take on a jo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an interim stop order on Hedge Fund of Australia’s (HFA) short form wholesale offering document for...

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