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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has claimed it does not enter into advice compliance projects on the basis of pre-determined pass rates....

Financial planning

Adviser numbers were already running close to 15% below the industry’s long-term average even before the end of 2020 and before the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is insisting it has empathy for financial planning licensees because it has both former advisers and paraplanners in ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is now claiming that its pivotal REP 413 which acted as the catalyst for the Life Insurance Framework is no longer re...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton, has claimed the regulator simply didn’t have enough pages to explain the implications of end...

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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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Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...

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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...

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Ahead of the 1 January 2026 education deadline for advisers, ASIC has issued its ‘final warning’ to the industry, reporting that more than 2,300 relevant providers could ...

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The Financial Advice Association Australia has implored advisers to reevaluate their exposure to AML/CTF obligations ahead of new reforms that will expand their complianc...

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