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Policy & Regulation
The ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies will be extended following a consultation by the Treasury, removing an impediment to the FASEA exam exte...
Financial planning
Financial advisers should report any concerns they have about superannuation funds breaking the intra-fund advice rules to the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...
Financial planning
Financial advisers have been lumped in with people the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges are involved in inappropriate behaviour around superannuat...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian financial services licence of one financial services providers has been cancelled while another has been revoked. ...
Financial planning
The Government is finding itself under pressure to support class order relief around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetable in the wake of th...
Funds management
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has written to market participants to ask they act appropriately to ensure a resilient stockmarket. ...
Financial planning
Dealer groups have done well to equip advisers with guidelines and interpretations for any queries their clients have....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission granted class order relief with respect to advisers being required to be members of a code-monitoring body and questi...
Policy & Regulation
A Queensland financial adviser has pleaded guilty to dishonestly using around $1.1m of client money for his own use. ...
Superannuation
Industry Super Australia has received tough written questioning from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission around how it calculates the impacts of early ac...
Financial planning
Bimaljeet Sekhon and Alan Davies have received three-year bans, while former Millennium3 authorised representative, Christopher Harris has been banned by the corporate re...
Policy & Regulation
Implementation of the key financial products design and distribution obligations has been deferred until well into the second half of next year....
Policy & Regulation
Firms marketing fixed term investment products as a substitute for bank term deposits have been placed on notice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. ...
Funds management
Online investment provider Six Park is temporarily reducing its minimum investment threshold and waiving investment management fees to encourage more Australians to in...
Financial planning
Pershing Securities Australia is the first company in the country to face criminal prosecution for breaching client money provisions....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...