AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

Planners and accountants unlikely to take each other’s work due to workloads involved. ...

Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance to assist planners gain their own licence and secure PI cover ...

Financial planning

An investment company which bought 49 per cent stake in van Eyk Research last year spends another $1 million on financial services start-ups....

Editorial

Based on recent media coverage, it would be easy to believe that the Abbott Government was quite recklessly setting about dismantling all the consumer protections contain...

Policy & Regulation

The proposed scrapping of FOFA’s conflicted remuneration ban could give planners the green light to offer general advice - but they should still approach with caution, a ...

Financial planning

The use of electronic disclosure documents is permitted under law, with ASIC releasing guidance regarding their online distribution. ...

Editorial

SFGA looks to expand into trusteeship arena while continuing to grow its planning footprint. ...

Financial planning

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from online foreign exchange broker for violating managed discretionary account (MDA) rules....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from former director of AIE Fiduciary Services (AIE) Manish Babul...

Financial planning

Touted as the next frontier for accountants, Limited Australian Financial Service Licences (AFSLs) are starting to gain traction with planners too. But what makes them so...

Financial planning

South Korea’s free trade agreement with Australia will open the door for unprecedented skill transfers from the local financial services sector, according to the FSC. ...

Financial planning

ASIC cancels AFSL of financial services provider unable to comply with licence conditions...

Editorial

With research showing that Statements of Advice remain almost impenetrable documents for consumers, Bruce Keenan argues it could be time for a change. ...

Funds management

Listed managed fund trading service to be operational in first half of this year....

Financial planning

ASIC releases enforcement report for second half of 2013 reporting 340 enforcement actions....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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