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Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation has found a mortgage broking business engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in their recommendatio...

Financial planning

The Short-Form Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), promulgated into law in December 2005, is reflected in a technical update to Policy Statement 168 released yesterday by...

People & Products

Australian Capital Reserve Group (ACR) became the third financial services organisation offering investments in property development in recent times to strike financial t...

Financial planning

Another alleged early release superannuation promoter has been the subject of action initiated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently conducting a policy review regarding the appropriateness of some of the training standards within financ...

Financial planning

There is cautious optimism within the industry that a proposed consumer ‘compensation’ fund levy has been dropped from newly announced legislation mandating financial pla...

Financial planning

Misleading Statements of Advice and inappropriate recommendations have resulted in a five-year ban from providing financial services for former Mawson Securities financia...

Financial planning

A Victorian-based company and holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence that acted as trustee for a number of superannuation funds, Top Quartile Management Limit...

Financial planning

Boutique wealth management company Plan B has announced that it intends to publicly list on the Australian Stock Exchange....

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation has resulted in a Perth-based development, Lake Coogee Estate, being wound up because the managed invest...

Funds management

A Brisbane property promoter has been handed a two and a half year jail sentence after pleading guilty to six charges of dishonest business dealings....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from First Capital Financial Planning over super switching advice it gave to ...

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation has led to the winding up of Brisbane-based Property Developers Fund....

Financial planning

Australia’s financial services regulators and the Australian Taxation Office will receive additional funding as a result of the Federal Budget....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has launched a new superannuation calculator to aid consumers with their decision making processes involving their retirement savings once the Fed...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 3 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 4 weeks ago

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

8 months ago

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

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

3 weeks 3 days ago

The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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