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A Parliamentary Committee has found that the Hayne Royal Commission failed to adequately scrutinise industry superannuation fund structures and the Australian Prudential ...
Policy & Regulation
Advisers look likely to be given more flexibility around the new fee disclosure statement rules following strong lobbying around flaws in the existing proposed arrangemen...
Financial planning
New South Wales financial planner, Ross Hopkins, has been sentenced to a maximum period of six years’ imprisonment for 15 dishonesty offences. ...
Life/Risk
Life insurers are not yet out of the woods on disability income insurance and should remain under scrutiny by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, according to...
Policy & Regulation
Both were cancelled for failure to lodge its 2020 audited financial accounts and annual compliance certificate in time....
Financial planning
Robert Bayntun Starky has failed to pay an Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) determination and failed to lodge 2020 audited financial accounts....
Financial planning
Former director of Global Merces Funds Management, Holly Grofski, has been charged with three counts of dishonest conduct, one count of providing false information and on...
Financial planning
Former van Eyk Research chief executive, Mark Peter Thomas, has been charged with four counts of dishonestly using his position as a director or officer of a company with...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings against the company for breaching the prohibition against conflicted remuneration and failing to provide a...
Financial planning
The Government and Treasury should seek to avoid repeating the FASEA mistakes by using the establishment of a Single Disciplinary Body to reduce regulatory costs. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is closely monitoring the delivery of financial advice by superannuation funds against the terms of ...
Financial planning
Some financial advisers have expressed concern at being drawn into giving advice to inexperienced to clients on property syndicates because of the impact of Design and Di...
Financial planning
Robert Patrick Marie has been banned by the corporate regulator for four years from providing any financial services....
Editorial
Thousands of low-balance, high maintenance clients are being orphaned in the wash-up of what is emerging as significant failure by successive governments to understand th...
Funds management
The corporate regulator has alleged PE Capital Funds Management had operated a number of unregistered managed investment schemes without an Australian financial services ...
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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...