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Financial planning

While bank-owned dealer groups aggressively increased their adviser numbers in the last few years, non-aligned financial planning businesses have had to put serious brake...

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Financial planning

FPA states that professional status requires association membership....

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Financial planning

ASIC takes the unusual step of using the weekend to announce a new focus on analyst briefings....

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Funds management

ASIC warns banks about potentially misleading term deposit advertising....

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Rate the raters

Last year saw one of the major investment research houses, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), exit the Australian market. ...

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Financial planning

Adviser cops life ban for insurance applications in names of non-existent people ...

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Financial planning

FPA will reconsider aspects of enshrinement if it fails to become law...

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Financial planning

The financial services industry has improved its practice in relation to the automatic rollover of term deposits, the regulator has found....

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has urged new Treasurer, Chris Bowen, to revisit the Government’s approach to Trio/Astarra compensation arrangements....

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Financial planning

BT Financial Group will refund some of its BT Wrap and BT SuperWrap customers after it was discovered they had been paying adviser fees above that of disclosed percentage...

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Financial planning

ASIC doubles NTA levels for custodians and IDPS providers ...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has given ASIC the green light to pursue Storm founders in court over the failure of the dealer group. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC raises the bar on platform disclosures amid concern at increased platform use by investors not using a planner....

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Life/Risk

Suncorp reports itself to ASIC and accepts life and general insurance compliance upgrade. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, is scheduled to address the opening plenary of next month’s Financial Services Council conference in Brisbane....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 1 day ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

3 weeks 6 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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