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Policy & Regulation

Large market participants have been ordered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to reduce market trades by 25% as the regulator moves to bring order....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants the Government to commission the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to monitor the escalating costs of practicing a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission Annual Forum and Annual Dinner will be rescheduled for a later date....

Financial planning

The High Court has unanimously held the Michael Christodoulou King was an officer of MFS Ltd (Octaviar) subsidiary MFS Investment Management and is therefore responsible ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled at least some flexibility around how advisers gain consent from clients to deduct fees from their super...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is looking at whether clients are being accurately designated as wholesale or retail investors....

Policy & Regulation

To be effective, the Financial Regulator Oversight Authority needs to be allowed to assess particular actions, or group of actions, to properly assess the two financial r...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released its new regulatory framework for foreign financial services providers who are providing services to Austr...

Financial planning

The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....

Superannuation

The proposed legislation could motivate advisers to enter into ongoing fee arrangements with superannuation members, according to a super body. ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants managers of advice licensees subjected to the same reference-checking protocols as advisers in circumstances where it says it has...

Financial planning

Firms looking to structure its group purchasing arrangements should look to alternatives as the group purchasing body relief might be replaced soon....

Policy & Regulation

Licensees work hard for the stamping fees they are paid and should be entitled to keep them, according to Investment Collective managing director, David French....

Editorial

The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...

Expert Analysis

The financial planning profession is on the cusp of a major growth trajectory as planners and professional associations unite to secure its future, writes Dante De Gori....

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

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