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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....

Financial planning

Under pressure ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, has urged politicians to take action to change financial planning....

Financial planning

ASIC has told a Senate committee it has asked NAB for detals of whistleblower complaints including the names of 37 terminated planners....

Financial planning

ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....

Financial planning

NAB Wealth counters media reports saying that where problems with its planning arm have been identified it has acted and compensated those affected. ...

Financial planning

New analysis points to planning firms having no escape from an increasing compliance burden....

Financial planning

The ASIC adviser register is intended to be up and running on 31 March....

Financial planning

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

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