AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....
Financial planning
ASIC has released a consultation paper outlining new requirements for managing conflicts of interest in relation to proof of debt schemes....
Financial planning
ASIC's recent scaled advice consultation paper does a fantastic job of clarifying how scaled advice will work in practice but leaves one significant gap, according to MyA...
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Lion Advantage and banned its chief executive David Hickie from providing financial services for two years...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued guidance to promoters of 'crowd funding' in order to provide clarity on arrangements that may fall ...
Financial planning
ASIC targets securities dealers over mis-selling and inadequate advice....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC signals it will apply the same rules to both scaled and holistic advice....
Financial planning
The financial services regulator has identified conflicts of interest present in asset consultant business models, which it said needed to be managed properly....
Financial planning
Opposition puts regulators and industry funds on notice referencing parliamentary accountability and competitive neutrality....
Financial planning
ASIC cancels credit licence and warns on need for EDR scheme membership....
Financial planning
Financial planning groups are restructuring salary models to make sure their planners are rewarded after the ban on commissions officially comes in on 1 July 2013....
Claims that SMSFs have no recourse against fraud and theft are simply not true, according to SPAA....
Financial planning
The Coalition will undertake a review of the industry's external dispute resolution arrangements next year if it is elected to government, according to Shadow Minister fo...
Policy & Regulation
Australia's two financial services regulators have acknowledged the level of stress and uncertainty being experienced by financial services companies as a result of the G...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...