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Financial planning

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

Financial planning

Planners should lift their knowledge about compliance and risk management issues as this area is often overlooked by research houses and is not actively overseen by regul...

Financial planning

ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...

Financial planning

SPAA chief executive, Andrea Slattery, says SMSF trustees should feel comforted by the level of regulatory scrutiny the sector receives....

Financial planning

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

Financial planning

The major industry funds groups want ASIC to receive better budgetary resourcing to regulate financial planners....

Financial planning

The raft of reviews and inquiries into the financial planning sector has created the optimal set of circumstances in which to lift professional and educational standards ...

Financial planning

ASIC says bitcoins and other digital currencies are not financial products but that derivatives may evolve. ...

Accounting

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

Financial planning

ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....

Financial planning

Planners are pre-empting formal changes to education standards from regulators and licensees with enrolments in courses at their highest figures for the start of a new ca...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has hit out at the media for saying it bungled a loan fraud case worth $110 million, claiming the transgression it’s being blamed for is outside i...

Financial planning

Potential mis-selling and poor advice are likely in the forestry managed investment scheme sector if amendments to FOFA are allowed to proceed, according to Industry Supe...

Financial planning

The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....

Financial planning

The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....

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

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

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

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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...

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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....

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