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Perth-based financial services provider Ballast will offer its full service offering to Go Gecko Real Estate as part of a formal strategic alliance....
Superannuation
SMSFs may be booming - but the unwary can also find themselves within the sights of a small number of dodgy property advisers and mortgage brokers, writes Damon Taylor. ...
Funds management
ASIC has suspended LM Investment Management’s AFSL for two years as its investigation into the fund manager continues. ...
Accounting
The APESB has agreed on the amended version of the controversial APES230 standard. ...
Funds management
The directors of LM Investment Management have appointed John Park and Ginette Muller of FTI Consulting as voluntary administrators....
Life/Risk
There have been too many bad practices with respect to churn for the regulator to abandon this issue, according to ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell....
Editorial
As planners grapple with how to implement the changes flowing from the FOFA reforms, David Hasib examines the stark choices that many will have to make, including actuall...
Financial planning
A Sydney director has been banned for three years after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found he was unfit to engage in credit ac...
Financial planning
Ibbotson Associates’ Matthew Esler highlights that effective client engagement not only empowers financial planners with the key to unlocking scaled advice but also ensur...
Superannuation
Will 2013 be the defining year for self-managed super funds? Bryan Ashenden's policy overview discusses the implications for advisers....
Life/Risk
Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
Policy & Regulation
Updated regulatory guidance published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) late last year has shifted much of the compliance burden directly ont...
Financial planning
Trust Company confirms its trustee arm has been served with a legal claim relating to the Banksia Securities collapse....
Financial planning
The new guidance on best interests duty implies asset-based fees are just as conflicted as commissions, according to Claire Wivell Plater....
Funds management
Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has called for property to be regulated as a financial product under the Corporations Act....
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Podcast
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...