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Financial planning

Select Asset Management CIO and Trio/Astarra whistle-blower, Dominic McCormick has written a scathing assessment of recent reports around IOOF and criticised the emerging...

Life/Risk

Specialist lawyer, Ian McDermott warns that licensees may be left carrying the can on claw-backs if advisers change dealer groups mid-stream....

Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has made clear that bank executives will be just as exposed as union officials to the Government’s proposed super fund gove...

Financial planning

With the financial services sector undergoing an unprecedented amount of regulatory change a financial services executive and lawyer has launched a firm to give SMEs lega...

Policy & Regulation

An Auditor-General’s report has revealed that if you’ve received a CGT letter from the ATO, it may well be wide of the market and have missed your share dealings....

Superannuation

The Government has released exposure draft legislation which would impose at least one third independent directors plus an independent chairman on industry fund boards....

Financial planning

IOOF managing director, Chris Kelaher, says it's mischievous to link the allegations against IOOF to planners or financial advice....

Funds management

IOOF has commissioned PWC to undertake an independent review of allegations relating to insider trading, front-running and breach reporting....

Superannuation

A recent determination by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has revealed the ugly consequence of super funds investing in highly illiquid assets....

Financial planning

IOOF seeks to rebuff newspaper allegations and points to ongoing legal disputation with a former employee....

Superannuation

Industry fund body, AIST, tells Government strategies are utilising SMSFs, wraps and SMAs to indefinitely postpone the payment of CGT....

Superannuation

Superannuation funds want the regulators to tell them how they actually spent the millions of dollars in financial services supervisory levies....

Life/Risk

ASIC signals that despite the industry’s position responding to Trowbridge, it is continuing to pursue enforcement over life/risk misconduct....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator has a $50 million war chest that he’s ready to use against banks, planners and other miscreants....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC - today rocket scientists, tomorrow dark pools, Sunday black holes and next week boldly going where no regulator has gone before....

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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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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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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 confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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