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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft admits ambiguity led to CommFP client compensation failures, but claims the bank was not “upfront”....

Superannuation

APRA has admitted it doesn’t monitor the expenses of superannuation fund executives or trustees....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the board of the Commonwealth Bank must be wondering how it was possible for the controversy around Commonwealth Financial Planning to get worse....

Financial planning

Penalties for financial planners who breach the law are not severe enough, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission believes....

People & Products

Former MLC chief executive Steve Tucker will head up a new funds management firm, slightly more than a year after his departure from the NAB-owned business. ...

Financial planning

Banks are being warned against high risk lending by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), as house prices continue to grow in many markets across the cou...

People & Products

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed AMP group executive insurance and superannuation Pauline Blight-Johnston to its board....

Financial planning

An embarrassed ASIC has imposed license conditions on Comm FP and Financial Wisdom as short-comings in compensation arrangements are revealed....

Financial planning

The Institute of Managed Account Providers will be telling planners about their options in a national roadshow starting in June. ...

Financial planning

Former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets, Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to seven charges last yea...

Financial planning

Newspaper reports are speculating that the Government will sell off ASIC’s company registry business. ...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

Financial planning

Lawyer points to possible action against planners and accountants as Timbercorp class action fails....

Funds management

Equity Trustees purchase of the trustee division of ANZ Bank to be funded by equity raising....

Financial planning

The founders of Bridges Financial Services are looking to float their managed discretionary account business, managedaccounts.com.au...

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4 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 4 weeks ago

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

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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 cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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