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FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....
Editorial
The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....
Policy & Regulation
Support from the Palmer United Party has ensured a move by the Australian Labor Party to disallow the Government’s Future of Financial Advice regulations failed in the Se...
Financial planning
Former CBA CEO Ralph Norris was aware of some of the problems relating to financial planning advice...
Financial planning
Former High Court Judge, Ian Callinan, has been named to head CBA's independent compensation review process....
Editorial
Andy Schmulow argues that the controvesy surrounding ASIC and its handling of the Commonwealth Bank have seriously damaged the financial planning industry and left few pe...
Financial planning
The further Senate Commmittee process initiated by the Federal Opposition will simply be another in a long list starting in 2009....
Policy & Regulation
Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann, claims the Opposition’s efforts to create a further Senate inquiry into the planning industry is political opportunism at work....
Policy & Regulation
Reports suggest the Labor Opposition will move to establish another Senate Committee inquiry into financial planning....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) response to the Commonwealth Bank financial planning fallout has elicited a scathing retort from the Association of Independent...
Policy & Regulation
The FPA has urged the calling of a national summit to resolve the issues raised in the 61 recommendations of the Senate Committee report....
Financial planning
A number of CBA planners have declared their anger at comments made by the FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe....
Financial planning
ASIC has acknowledged the CBA’s new compensation and review processes by reminding the banking group of its ongoing breach reporting obligations....
Editorial
The financial planning industry suffered substantial collateral damage as a result of the collapse of Storm Financial but, as Mike Taylor reports, last week’s Senate Comm...
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