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Financial planning

Two draft bills for the Federal Government's National Consumer Credit Action Plan, which embraces margin lending, will be released by the Minister for Superannuation and ...

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Superannuation

MICHAEL HUTTON outlines some options for accessing superannuation....

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Financial planning

Australian Wealth Management shareholders today approved the proposed merger of financial services groups IOOF Holdings and AWM....

Financial planning

A former adviser on Westpoint products has been convicted on the charge of providing financial advice without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence as required...

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Financial planning

Former Power Loan franchisee appears in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Financial planning

Investors into term deposits offered by institutions covered by the Government’s bank guarantee have been urged to remain alert, not alarmed, as the regulator moves...

People & Products

Cameron to replace Jim Tate, who leaves the board to take up a new position within Westpac as head of retail banking....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has initiated proceedings against four Queensland men on charges relating to dealing in Westpoint products without ho...

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Financial planning

The longstanding 'Best Advice Project', a trial co-operative of 12 separate advice firms, will officially operate under the single brand Shadforths Financial Group from J...

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Financial planning

A review conducted by the Reserve Bank and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged a slow-down in moves to lift the minimum capital levels for coun...

Financial planning

The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry, has backed rule changes on partly-paid....

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Accounting

The former accountant and company secretary for the Bustan Australia Group, Claire Horsman, has been sentenced to jail on charges relating to providing inaccurate informa...

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Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned that widespread job losses in the current downturn may lead to an upturn in the number of illegal early ac...

Financial planning

Ignite Financial Systems and Research, the software company closely associated with Storm, will meet the regulator in the Brisbane Federal Court today....

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Financial planning

Regulator concerned that Westpac advertising for Choice account was misleading to existing customers....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 1 week ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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