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

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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....

Financial planning

Australia to act as Australasian arm of Deloitte’s chain of Cyber Intelligence Centres....

Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

Financial planning

Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....

Superannuation

ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....

Financial planning

ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....

Superannuation

AIST urges Government not to adopt Board of Taxation’s recommendations lifting the super payment threshold for low income workers to $1350 a quarter....

Financial planning

ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...

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