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Financial planning

Canberra-based super fund AvSuper has been granted relief to provide intra-fund advice but is sticking with its outsourced full financial planning arrangement with Outloo...

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Financial planning

A poll conducted by Money Management has revealed strong support for stricter penalties being imposed against recalcitrant advisers....

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Editorial

The group's latest financial results reveal the extent to which the company suffered during the financial crisis....

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Editorial

Bryan Ashenden takes a look at the far-reaching impact the recommendations of the Ripoll Inquiry could have on the financial services industry....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is conducting an exhaustive audit of the operations of the country’s largest Australian Financial Services Licensees....

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Financial planning

The AIOFP intends to hire a private investigator in Hong Kong to pursue people and companies associated with the missing $118 million from Astarra Asset Management's Alph...

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Financial planning

ASIC has been successful in an application to prevent the directors of LKM Capital from leaving the country....

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Financial planning

Melbourne brokers banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over insider trading....

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Financial planning

Former Macquarie Equities client adviser facing multiple ASIC charges....

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Financial planning

Investment banks and other advisers who participate in capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions will face tough new standards this year, with ASIC acknowledging freq...

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People & Products

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has found a replacement for the position of general manager of policy and government relations, which was left vacant following G...

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Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has urged transition to a mandatory superannuation forecasting regime, arguing a voluntary approach has proven ineffe...

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Financial planning

FIIG points to the fact that two successive reports have recommended the clearing of regulatory red tape....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Victorian financial planner from providing financial services for five years for, among other things, misleading his clients and providing clients with ...

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Financial planning

Opes Prime Stockbroking directors arrested....

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