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Regulator closes managed investment scheme....

Financial planning

The Supreme Court of NSW has granted orders sought by the corporate regulator preventing a Sydney-based financial planner from leaving the country and liquidating his ass...

Financial planning

Financial Services Partners (FSP) has purchased a newly-launched management tool aimed at eliminating the ‘people risks’ involved in the financial services business....

Financial planning

Both the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Taxation Office are continuing investigations into alleged early release superannuation arran...

Financial planning

An unlicensed adviser in Queensland has received a five-and-a-half year jail term for the dishonest use of over $500,000 of investors’ money...

Financial planning

After six months of preparations, Bravura Solutions and Nucleus Financial Group have launched an industry first wrap initiative in the UK....

Life/Risk

A former Victorian insurance agent and broker has pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonesty following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has succeeded in having interim injunctions granted against two unlicensed Queensland investment schemes....

Financial planning

The promoter of an illegal early release superannuation scheme has been ordered to forfeit property valued at over $5 million to the Commonwealth as a result of charges b...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has sought to shut down companies associated with a “financial mentor” from Brisbane....

Superannuation

Two directors of self-managed superannuation funds have been banned for life, and another for seven years, after the corporate regulator successfully obtained orders from...

Financial planning

Nucleus Financial Group has chosen Asia Pacific’s Bravura Solutions to provide the UK market with the technology for a new wrap....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has banned two Melbourne directors associated with an unregistered managed investment scheme from providing financial services for three years....

Financial planning

ASIC has filed an application in the Queensland Supreme Court seeking orders against an unregistered investment scheme being operated by Intertax Holdings....

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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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