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Financial planning

The AFA says advisers are too often being blamed for product failures and the misdeeds of others....

Life/Risk

APRA warns life insurers they need to take responsibility for the manner in which their products are sold....

Life/Risk

Synchron’s Don Trapnell urges risk advisers to counter worst elements of Trowbridge interim report, including five-year responsibility period....

Financial planning

ASIC moves to extend the class order relief currently underpinning general advice....

Superannuation

APRA will wait and see what finally emerges from the unions Royal Commission before acting with respect to allegations confronting Cbus....

Superannuation

APRA has been questioned over the appropriateness of industry fund directors’ fees exceeding $1 million a year....

Superannuation

The ISA points to the tension between members’ best interests and shareholder returns with respect to bank-owned super funds. ...

Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

Financial planning

Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....

Superannuation

The Government is intent on proceeding with changes to superannaution fund governance to bring them into line with publicly-listed companies....

Superannuation

Industry fund chief executive wants banks and AMP to abide by a best interest duty when providing super via employers....

Accounting

The former director of an accountancy firm has been banned by ASIC for being part of a scheme which raised funds from clients for mezzanine finance and mortgage lending....

Financial planning

ASIC has issued a $42,500 penalty on payday lender Abaz Pty Ltd for failing to get the necessary account statements from consumers....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian credit licence of Net Finance (Corp) Pty Ltd and banned its director, Graham Tandy, from the credit industry for 10 years....

Financial planning

ASIC has answered parliamentary questions about superannuation union liaison officers, the type of advice they can provide and whose AFSL they might be working under....

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