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The Commonwealth Bank has offered almost $4.9 million in compensation to clients who received poor advice while it has offered compensation to 201 cases for poor advice i...
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Bankwest was in the process of closing its salaried advice business with the CBA offering the advice team opportunities to transition to Financial Wisdom. ...
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Imminent changes to lift requirements on MDA operators by ASIC including the removal of a no action letter will disrupt advice businesses using limited MDA arrangements. ...
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ASIC has permanently banned a former Queensland AMP Financial Planner representative from providing financial services for providing inappropriate advice and borrowing cl...
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ASIC’s guidance of digital advice should apply to all financial advisers because of the way financial advice businesses are structured, lawyers believe....
Financial planning
While low fees are at the bottom of the priority list when investors pick a financial adviser, only 33 per cent of investors completely understand how they pay their advi...
Financial planning
A former Allianz financial adviser has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while ASIC has permanently banned her after she was caught allegedly stealing clients’ ...
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The Federal Court may have found that Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis breached their duties as directors of Storm Financial but the issues around the Storm collapse are big...
Financial planning
Financial advice and wealth advisory group, Omniwealth, has purchased a mortgage broking business to expand its mortgage services, on the back of increased demand. ...
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Eric Blewitt points to the benefits of social media for financial advisers and listening to the questions, not the answers....
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There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...
Financial planning
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities Limited representative from providing financial services for five years for inappropriate advice and engaging in unauthorised ...
Financial planning
ASIC has permanently banned a former NSW insurance company director, Timothy Pratten, from providing financial services and from engaging in credit activities....
Financial planning
Forty-one per cent of working age Australians have not received any financial advice to prepare for retirement, according to HSBC....
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Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Brad Fox, argues that planners will need to become increasingly adaptive to cope with the rapid rate of change occurrin...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...