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Financial Planning Association (FPA) members will provide one free interview to victims of defaulting solicitors’ mortgage schemes....

Financial planning

ASIC has signalled it is getting serious about financial planners who have a conflict of interest by charging and convicting a former National Australia Bank (NAB) financ...

Financial planning

Former Garrisons financial planner Phillip John Maguire has been banned from acting as a financial adviser due to bankruptcy....

Financial planning

Nick Bruining offers some invaluable advice for surviving this year’s FPA Convention in Melbourne....

Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Funds Management chief and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) deputy chairman David Knott is to take the top job at the investment...

Financial planning

FORMER Financial Wisdom financial planner Robyn Ann-Carrolle Cochrane has pleaded guilty to 28 charges of fraud, following an investigation by the Australian Securities a...

Financial planning

Improving the image of financial planners in the eyes of Australian consumers will be the cornerstone to Ken Breakspear’s strategy for the Financial Planning Association....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned a record 50 investment advisers in 1999/2000, compared to just 17 the year before....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned a record 50 investment advisers in 1999/2000, compared to just 17 the year before....

Financial planning

A Melbourne based accountant has pleaded guilty to ordering the redeeming of superannuation money on behalf of clients who had not qualified for retirement....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced an enforceable undertaking action on Grosvenor Securities’ 40 advisers, following a surveillance...

Financial planning

Former Colonial financial planner William Richard Berghouse has been given a lifetime ban from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser fro...

Financial planning

An administrator has been appointed to the Victorian Soho Lemon Management scheme. Director Peter Russell-Clarke says he requested an administrator be appointed to protec...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is unfairly hounding managers of strata investments who comply with the Managed Investments Act while allowing ...

Financial planning

Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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