COMPLIANCE

Life/Risk

Trowbridge recommends level commissions, an Initial Advice Payment of no more than $1200 and a five-year rule....

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commisison may sit at the centre of how key Trowbridge recommendations are imposed....

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Financial planning

NAB has confirmed it is now reporting to ASIC all planners departures and the reasons for their exit....

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Superannuation

A Brisbane planner has questioned industry funds, the size of their boards and the amounts paid to union-nominated directors....

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Financial planning

ASIC is focusing on stockbrokers and investment advisers and the use of general of advice....

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Financial planning

ASIC announces banning of Charterhill Group founder, George Nowak, until 3 July, 2017....

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Life/Risk

If life insurance companies want to repair some of the reputational damage inflicted on their industry they need to commit to delivering on their product promises....

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Funds management

ASIC has been warned that cobbling together guidance on PDS fee disclosure is not enough and that the underlying legislation needs to be fixed....

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Financial planning

Planners urged to do their own due diligence on licensees or risk future reputational damage....

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Life/Risk

APRA deputy chairman, Ian Laughlin claims life companies have pursued questionable practices in their pursuit of adviser business....

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Financial planning

Documents tabled in Parliament reveal NAB saw no commercial case for pursuing the removal of upfront life/risk commissions. ...

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Financial planning

Documents used to condemn NAB Wealth’s handling of advisers actually provided proof of how it was moving to upgrade compliance amid the fallout from CBA....

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Financial planning

Documents used to condemn NAB Wealth’s handling of advisers actually provided proof of how it was moving to upgrade compliance amid the fallout from CBA....

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Editorial

A clear agenda is being prosecuted aimed at forcing the Government to hold a Royal Commission into the Financial Planning industry but do those pursuing the issue have cl...

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Financial planning

The fall-out from NAB’s planning issues may be adoption of a recommendation for a compulsory planner reference-checking regime....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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...

5 months ago

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

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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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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