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Funds management
Australian hedge funds have been given a clean bill of health by ASIC largely because most investors are institutional....
Financial planning
ASIC has acknowledged an Abbott Federal Government’s intended amendments to FOFA but will not be altering its approach until they become law....
Financial planning
APRA warns lenders against letting the current low interest rate environment drive up unsustainable housing credit....
Financial planning
Australia’s growing “class action mentality” and the emergence of litigation funders have created fertile ground for claims against participants in the financial services...
Superannuation
SPAA has welcomed ASIC Commissioner Greg Tanzer’s acknowledgement of the important role advisers play in the SMSF sector....
Financial planning
FOFA regulations require planners to outline platform and investment choices in SOAs....
Financial planning
ASIC to keep watching brief for 18 months over Anne Street Partners Financial Services....
Financial planning
A former WealthSure planner who has been ordered to pay $1.7 million in damages to a client is unlikely to pay the claim after he declared himself bankrupt....
Financial planning
Bradley Thomas Sherwin, the bankrupt chairman of Wickham Securities, has been banned from the financial services industry for more than two and a half years....
Funds management
ASIC has placed interim stop orders on the product disclosure statements (PDSs) and associated advertising of two investment schemes of which Trilogy Funds Management is ...
Financial planning
New Deloitte research reveals the increasing use of remuneration clawbacks for financial services executives but not for the upper-most echelon of management....
Superannuation
ASIC’s SMSF taskforce finds some disturbing features within low-balance SMSFs....
Financial planning
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....
Financial planning
A US-based online brokerage has ceased providing new margin loans to its Australian clients following an investigation into the conditions of its AFSL....
Financial planning
The latest ASIC Market Supervision Report reveals practices amongst securities dealers which might make a planner blush. ...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...