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Editorial

The Financial Planning Association’s white paper on planner education appears to be a knee-jerk reaction to mounting criticism and scrutiny. ...

Financial planning

In what represents a largely unprecedented move, both APRA and ASIC have moved against Trio Capital and its Astarra super funds and managed investment schemes....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has used its submission to the second phase of the Cooper Review to argue for cost reductions at the same time as calling for equity on intra-fund advi...

Financial planning

A New South Wales financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for 10 years for advising his SMSF clients to invest in companies he directed....

Financial planning

Bongiorno Financial Advisers and State Trustees to pay more than $16 million in compensation to investors....

Financial planning

Financial services licensees must stop the merry-go-round of bad advisers, with the industry failing to add substance to the rhetoric of 'weeding out the bad apples'....

Financial planning

A Sydney adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Editorial

A recent parliamentary report lamented the poor educational skills of 'mum and dad' investors and their inability to critically analyse retail investment products. But is...

Financial planning

With the dust from the global financial crisis beginning to settle, it is an opportune time for some reflection, writes Mark Hoven....

Financial planning

A new submission to the Cooper Review has suggested that the dominance of financial planning by banking institutions is more worrying than the payment of commissions....

Financial planning

Financial planners may doubt the need for a credit licence, but the new National Consumer Credit regime encompasses their advice in certain circumstances. ...

Financial planning

Dealer group Millennium3 won a recent court case against one of its former authorised representatives, Avoca Consultants, which it ejected after it failed to meet the gro...

Financial planning

ASIC has launched its Swimming Between the Flags guide for retail investors but it has proven to be less prescriptive than some feared....

Financial planning

The new regime for margin lending imposes new responsible lending requirements and clarifies responsibility for providing notification of margin calls, ASIC said....

Financial planning

ASIC produces a consultation paper aimed at discussion around the creation of retail access to corporate bonds....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 2 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 3 weeks ago

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

7 months 3 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

1 week 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...

3 weeks 6 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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