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Financial planning

The FPA has questioned the role of research houses, responsible managers and product issuers in the collapses of forestry managed investment schemes stating it had become...

Financial planning

ASIC has imposed conditions on the licence of Guardian Advice after finding advice that lacked a reasonable basis or lacked evidence it was given in the best interest of ...

Superannuation

ASIC cancelled the AFSL of Coal Industry Superannuation Fund after its merger with AUSCOAL Super last year....

Financial planning

Two Melbourne men and one of their partners have been charged with conspiring to defraud financial institutions of approximately $110 million, following an ASIC investiga...

Financial planning

ASIC moves to extend the class order relief currently underpinning general advice....

Financial planning

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

Editorial

The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....

Funds management

ASIC plans to probe the mortgage lending standards of the Big Four, particularly honing in on interest-only loans. ...

Financial planning

A broker will refund $477,900 to 2000 consumers after the corporate regulator found it had charged consumers a brokerage fee when it was not allowed to....

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

Financial planning

The FSI final recommendations seek to place greater onus on product manufacturers....

Financial planning

Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....

Financial planning

ISA has fired a last shot across the bows of retail financial advice before the release of the FSI report calling for the “conflict-ridden, vertically integrated business...

Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft admits he's fired up and heartbroken over bad financial planners. ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 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 ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

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

7 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 days 14 hours 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...

3 weeks 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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