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ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...

Financial planning

The FPA will drop its efforts to enshrine 'financial planner' under law claiming it would be automatically protected if recommendations from the PJC are adopted by the Fe...

Financial planning

The Australian Bankers Association has defended vertical integration claiming many super funds are vertically integrated too....

Accounting

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

Financial planning

The directors and trustees of investment companies carry far less regulatory onus than financial planners, according to Centrepoint Alliance....

Financial planning

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

Financial planning

Financial services companies that adopt and use financial technology (fintech) are most likely to succeed while the sector undergoes disruption and change according to AW...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the positives in the FSI final report....

Financial planning

The financial services industry is being urged to embrace technology to help boost consumers’ understanding of financial products....

Policy & Regulation

A Perth based financial planner has begun a campaign to seek an apology from independent senator Jackie Lambie after she labelled financial advisers as ‘unscrupulous’....

Editorial

Rowena Cole explores the ASX's new mFund offering and its opportunities for advice and SMSFs....

Financial planning

A former financial adviser has been jailed after being found guilty of stealing shares worth almost $1.5 million to meet margin calls on his mother’s margin lending accou...

Policy & Regulation

Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...

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