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Financial planning

van Eyk’s administrator has recommended winding up the research house, ahead of a meeting tomorrow to determine the company’s fate. ...

Financial planning

ASIC warns that commissions may continue to exist within MIS arrangements despite the FOFA changes....

Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....

Editorial

Heidi Nash-Smith and Jack Geng explore the controversy surrounding the Financial Ombudsman Service and how ASIC can redress the power imbalance....

Life/Risk

The corporate regulator is not seeking any changes to PI insurance requirements for advisers stating that ‘tinkering’ would not deal with problems related to claims or di...

Financial planning

A South Australian finance broker has pleaded guilty to forging a memorandum of mortgage, to defraud $170,000 from an investor....

Policy & Regulation

Opposition to consider reworked FOFA policy for next election as industry reports confirm need to oppose amendments....

Superannuation

Corporate superannuation advice is caught between legislation and government inaction threatening the provision of advice....

Financial planning

Banning upfront commissions on insurance products is not the answer to weeding out unscrupulous advisers, according to The Boutique Financial Planning Principals’ Group (...

Financial planning

ASIC has secured a restraining order preventing a foreign exchange company and its former director from carrying on a financial services business....

Life/Risk

A former insurance company director has pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to 39 charges brought by ASIC....

Financial planning

An Australian financial services business has agreed to cease providing services in Japan after an inquiry by ASIC found it was not licenced by the Japanese regulator....

Financial planning

BTFG moves unilaterally be introducing its own adviser register and providing scope for client feedback and assessment....

Financial planning

More than 4000 customers of the CBA's planning businesses have registered for a review of the financial advice they received following the launch of the Open Advice Revie...

Financial planning

Financial services group Spring FG says it will never be pursuing a dealer group model again after a “bitter experience” with a rogue licensee last year. ...

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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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