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Life/Risk

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

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

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

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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

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....

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....

Financial planning

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

Life/Risk

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

Financial planning

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

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....

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....

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...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

Serious questions asked about whether NAB appropriately filed breach reports relating to 37 planners with whom it parted company....

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