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Financial planning

From an early age, Kevin Bailey knew he wanted to be involved in financial services. However, when you’re a teenager and there is no such occupation as a financial planne...

Financial planning

An adviser who created a fictitious account with his employer, Barton Capital Securities, has been sidelined by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC...

Financial planning

Recently <i>Money Management</i> reported on a survey conducted by Assessment Education Services concerning the implementation of PS146 in small and medium dealer groups....

Financial planning

Corporate superannuation fund Telstra Super has set up an in-house financial planning arm for its member base....

Financial planning

Plans for the launch of the much-anticipated Australian Property Exchange (APX) are once again in limbo with ASIC refusing to provide a firm timetable to give the venture...

Financial planning

A former Canberra financial planner linked to failed investment scheme, the Wattle Group, has pleading guilty to 13 charges of breaching sections of the Corporations Law,...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has forced the Adviser Ratings group into a back down over its plans to publish a ranking of financial planners....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...

Financial planning

Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on planners to prepare and apply for the new financial services licence now instead of putting it o...

Financial planning

The former chair of the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) Canberra chapter has been jailed for up to six years for stealing funds from his clients in a failed attemp...

Financial planning

A former adviser with Professional Investment Services has made an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) not to act as an...

Financial planning

A former adviser in Victoria has been jailed after the Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions was successful with a case against him for deceiving clients while working fo...

Financial planning

South Australian financial adviser Graeme Edward Smith Hall has been permanently banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer by the Australian Securitie...

Financial planning

The Financial Options Group Inc (FOGI) and the Australia Fund, which had been issued with stop orders from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), ha...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

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

6 months 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....

3 weeks 4 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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