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Financial planning

FSC senior adviser, Cecilia Storniolo has pointed to the differences in treatment between accountants and planners on TASA....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Sydney-based mortgage broker from engaging in credit activities for five years and cancelled his Australian credit licence....

Funds management

Ratings house, Standard & Poor’s has been targeted for litigation in the wake of proposed Lehman settlement with Australian councils....

Policy & Regulation

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox says advice firms are being placed under pressure by the continuing regulatory unknowns around FOFA....

Superannuation

The mortgage broking industry appears to have created a more aggressive push into the ever-expanding SMSF segment. ...

Financial planning

Financial planners wishing to keep providing advice in areas such as superannuation after 1 July will have to complete a course approved by the Taxation Practitioners Boa...

Accounting

IPA upgrades its bookkeper designation to take account of BAS agents and the Tax Practitioner Board....

Financial planning

A Melbourne adviser who placed close to $700,000 of client money in a failed investment scheme is charged with inappropriate advice....

Superannuation

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell has pointed to poor quality advice with respect to SMSFs and the influence of real property spruikers....

Financial planning

ASIC has delayed work on its financial planner training framework while the Future of Financial Advice reforms are being implemented. ...

Superannuation

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell has pointed to poor quality advice with respect to SMSFs and the influence of real property spruikers....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from financial services business City Index Australia....

Financial planning

Centric Wealth has released the findings of its first advisory group meeting – and they provide a welcome news on fees for the industry, says chief executive Phil Kearns....

Funds management

ASIC has suspended LM Investment Management’s AFSL for two years as its investigation into the fund manager continues. ...

Superannuation

MySuper licences could be cancelled if super fund trustees breach guidance on giving and collectively charging for intrafund advice, ASIC has warned....

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