FINANCIAL ADVISER

Financial planning

Licensees should not be responsible for individual financial adviser registrations to the corporate regulator as it makes clear these are a statutory obligation and not a...

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Financial planning

Rahul Goel of AR Wealth and Finance in Western Australia has also been charged with three counts of false certification of documents....

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Financial planning

Ahmed Saad has pleaded guilty after operating a scheme to provide illegal early access to super for clients. ...

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Financial planning

There is plenty of competition between dealer groups to take advantage of the uncertainty which has accompanied IOOF’s acquisition of MLC Wealth by recruiting attractive ...

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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog allege that AR Wealth and Finance financial adviser Rahul Goel acted dishonestly in relation to hardship and other applications to super funds on b...

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Financial planning

David Horton was found to have given clients’ inappropriate advice to double gear their investments and did not consider their cashflow position or ability to cover margi...

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Policy & Regulation

The full Federal Court has confirmed the directors of Storm Financial breached their duties, after the original judgement was handed down in August 2016....

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Financial planning

Two very different surveys have confirmed that trust sits at the heart of good relationships between advisers and their clients....

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Financial planning

Max Kiattisak Eung has been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to obtaining financial advantage by deception of $166,500....

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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has alleged Keith James Flowers of using his position as director dishonestly and obtaining financial advantage by deception....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that scores of financial advisers will be left looking for new licensees in the wake of this month’s announcements by the Commonwealth Bank and AMP Li...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Melbourne financial adviser Robert Michael for dishonestly borrowing money from his clients’ self-m...

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Policy & Regulation

Former Adelaide financial adviser James Gibbs has been sentenced for 10 years imprisonment to theft and other dishonesty offences, totalling approximately $4.88 million....

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Financial planning

Former financial adviser, Trevor William Martin, has pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining client funds....

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Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office has revealed that Project DO IT provided “valuable intelligence” about financial institutions and advisers that may have been involved in o...

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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 ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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