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Recent well publicised reports on financial planning groups have highlighted systemic risks and recurring failures by licensees to meet their legal obligations. ...

Financial planning

Despite the appearance of uniformity not every dealer group is the same when it comes to major issues of structure and business practice. Jason Spits looks at a Queenslan...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament sets out to provide a consistent and comprehensive regulatory framework for our industry. Tom Collins recko...

Financial planning

ASIC effectively shut down Chapel Road when it revoked the dealer group’s licence in May. However, concerns about a number of other dealer group’s compliance procedures o...

Financial planning

The actions of Chapel Road and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have temporarily settled as the two wait for an appeal to be held later this ye...

Financial planning

Financial planners and investment professionals are advised to examine their professional indemnity insurance policies under new light shed by the Financial Services Refo...

Financial planning

The success of MLC, under the ownership of the National Australia Bank (NAB), in courting the Deutsche Financial Planning advisers to join with Godfrey Pembroke is widely...

Financial planning

In recent weeks, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken a hard line against some of the industry’s most high profile dealer groups....

Financial planning

Australian Financial Securities (AFS) is a dealer group with a difference, carving out a niche market in financial planning through access to venture capital investments....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has removed Triscott Investments as responsible entity of the Australian Managed Mortgage Investment Fund....

Financial planning

Securities dealer Chapel Road has resumed operations following the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) agreement to a conditional stay of its dealer...

Financial planning

Charter Financial Planning is taking an increasingly tough stance on the qualifications of its financial planners. But as John Wilkinson discovered, it is offering full d...

Financial planning

Prime Minister John Howard has agreed to deliver a verdict on the issue of Alienation of Personal Services Income (APSI) within the next three weeks....

Financial planning

It is a dealer principle’s worst nightmare. A licence revoke and 39 proper authority holders across 29 offices shut down from daily operations. Last week, securities dea...

Financial planning

Further public hearings into the draft Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) have been scheduled for next month, following the initial round in late April....

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

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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