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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...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator also expects its focus on financial advisers to decline and looks to provide better examples of records of advice to decrease the compliance burde...
Financial planning
Jane Hume said she has no interest in perpetuating a ‘nanny state culture’ where it resorts to banning things to save people from their own follies such as making financi...
Policy & Regulation
The corporate regulator has permanently banned Ross Andrew Hopkins from providing financial services after it found he had made 167 unauthorised transfers totalling $2.94...
Financial planning
Under 40% of financial advisers are members of the largest professional body representing financial planners in Australia, according to data....
Financial planning
First-time investors currently sourcing information from social media should not be shut out of receiving financial advice in the future as a result of public policy. ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...