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Funds management

Investors using social media and chatrooms to conduct market manipulation should assume they are being watched by the regulator, which is paying closer attention to these...

Policy & Regulation

The record of advice relief measure is extended to April 2022, as well as the “time critical” relief measure that gave financial advisers additional time to give their cl...

Financial planning

The regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of disgraced former tax agent Vanda Gould....

Financial planning

Clients of a financial adviser being investigated by the corporate regulator for contravening the law were still being put into Diversa products while the investigation w...

Financial planning

One-third of advisers are likely to have their rating downgraded as the firm incorporates more focus on education and professional standards....

Financial planning

October sees the introduction of further Royal Commission recommendations and design and distribution obligations, heaping further pressure on financial advisers. ...

Policy & Regulation

The draft legislation for the Better Advice Bill has outlined the Financial Services and Credit Panel will convene on serious matters, but the Association of Financial Ad...

Financial planning

The law should protect licensees reporting other licensees under the new breach reporting regime given it will not be anonymous, according to Holley Nethercote....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator is expected to look closely at conflicts of interests for in-house managed account fees but conflicts of interest are easy to avoid, according to ...

Financial planning

Financial advisers who sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam when the corporate regulator administers the exam will pay over $350 more than now. ...

Financial planning

Frederick Ackerman has been banned by the corporate watchdog for four years and the advice firm he was an authorised representative of, Pure Strategy, had its licence can...

Top 100

Money Management’s 2021 TOP Financial Planning Groups survey has confirmed that the number of financial advisers operating under the umbrellas of the largest groups has d...

Financial planning

A report from the corporate regulator and Deloitte found platforms and research houses created barriers to entry, and managed accounts structures could potentially create...

Funds management

The corporate regulator has banned former Sydney-based dealer and portfolio manager at Regal Funds Management, Dylan Rands, for five years on the grounds of market manipu...

Financial planning

Advisers who have taken a career break or a secondment by the end of 2021 will not be considered a new entrant when they wish to return to their adviser role but will hav...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

2 weeks 1 day ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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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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