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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revised the internal dispute resolution (IRD) procedures for financial institutions to help reduce paperwo...

Financial planning

Australian Unity Funds Management has found itself in legal dispute with David Tweed....

Financial planning

The FPA welcomes continued primacy of ASIC in regulating planners on tax advice....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....

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Financial planning

The value and effectiveness of the Government’s financial literacy programs for adults have been called into question as a number of new initiatives are introduced ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has taken action against four websites that make false and misleading claims or provide financial services without an AFSL....

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Editorial

Milana Pokrajac takes a look at recruitment in the wake of the GFC and considers the impact this has had on the job market....

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Financial planning

Equity Trustees restructures to better accommodate responsible entity issues....

Funds management

In another win for Westpoint investors, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has settled a compensation suit with KPMG and certain Westpoint Group ...

Financial planning

Equity Trustees restructures to increase Responsible Entity servicing....

Financial planning

A new survey reveals the extent to which regulators are failing to deliver timely answers to Parliament....

Financial planning

A new survey reveals the extent to which regulators are failing to deliver timely answers to Parliament....

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called for standardised labelling of financial products to provide retail investors with a better understa...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called for standardised labelling of financial products to provide retail investors with a better understa...

Financial planning

A Melbourne-based mortgage broker has been sentenced to almost five years in jail and ordered to pay $1.2 million in compensation to investors for operating a Ponzi schem...

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