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Financial planning

It’s the end of the road for beleaguered financial planning group Storm Financial. The regulator has succeeded in its quest to have the group formally wound up without an...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has undertaken to spearhead the formation of a new industry-wide framework to rate the risk, return and liquidity of ...

Financial planning

Despite all that has occurred Storm Financial and its founders still have the support of some former clients and associates....

Financial planning

Also criticises the transfer of the Financial Literacy Foundation to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Financial planning

The regulator has signalled it will be visiting superannuation fund trustees to better understand how they are operating....

Financial planning

Regulator cracking down on false rumours that take advantage of market turmoil to affect market share prices....

Policy & Regulation

The spreading of company tax debt is 'a time bomb waiting to go off', according to Hall Chadwick accountants and business advisers partner Richard Albarran....

Financial planning

One of the financial planning offshoots of Storm Financial, Victorian Families, may soon be placed in liquidation, while there are concerns there may be claims made again...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) says use of the term 'adviser' should be restricted and more closely regulated, differentiating between financial advisers and...

Editorial

So the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) intends to conduct another financial planning shadow shopping exercise some time after June 30, this year –...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has applied to the Federal Court to place Storm Financial in liquidation in a move prompted by a 'misleading' memo ci...

Financial planning

With the global financial crisis giving rise to increasing numbers of financial scams, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it is clamping d...

Financial planning

The administrators of Storm Financial will today deliver a report to the group’s creditors and the regulator that will detail its financial circumstances and advise on wh...

Financial planning

ASIC's deputy chairman, Jeremy Cooper, has flagged the regulator’s intention to take an increasing role in the education of retail investors, but should this be the regul...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issues none too subtle warning to advisers that they need to lift their game on investment choices....

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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....

2 weeks 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...

4 weeks 1 day 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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