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Financial planning

Former director of Spectrum Wealth Advisers, Mark Schroeder, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following numerous compliance failures....

Financial planning

Compensation paid by the six largest banking and financial services institutions for fee-for-no-service and non-compliant advice is at $749.7 million, according to the co...

Financial planning

The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....

Financial planning

Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....

Editorial

Much of the commentary attaching to the first anniversary of the Hayne Royal Commission recommendations has tended to flatter what was, objectively, a flawed outcome thor...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that advisers need to be alert to the current discussion around the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposed new design and distribu...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has driven home the message that it will look beyond adviser misconduct to those who allowed it to occur....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that AMP has been ordered to pay $5.175 million penalty after failing to prevent insurance churn by its...

Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained an order to win up Global Merces on just and equitable grounds....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed how it placed conditions on superannuation funds which had the effect of ending the payment of commissi...

Financial planning

Financial adviser Timothy Shapter has been banned for seven years for failing best interests duty and his licensee Smart Solutions has had its licence cancelled....

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....

Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

Financial planning

Additional licence conditions have been placed on BGC Securities Australia in relation to its fixed income business....

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