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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....

Accounting

CPA Australia Advice vows to remain indifferent to competition and to run its own race in the financial planning space....

Accounting

Perpetual Private has entered into a partnership with a law firm aimed at helping accountants navigate the firm’s full licensing offer....

Financial planning

An accounting firm and a financial planning firm have joined GPS Wealth ahead of the scrapping of the accountants’ exemption on 1 July....

Accounting

Most accountants have not started their licence application or made a decision on what SMSF licensing path to pursue, according to a survey....

Financial planning

ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited after it found several breach incidents over recent years. ...

Financial planning

Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....

Accounting

The low take-up of limited licences suggested accountants were not realising their advising rights were being snatched by legislation. ...

Financial planning

The most successful planning practices outsource services and processes that don’t fit with core tasks according to the head of dealer services provider AAP....

Financial planning

ASIC banned former Provident Capital MD from managing corporations for five years and providing financial services for seven years....

Accounting

Accountants could work as authorised representatives instead of getting their own AFSL as the licensing deadline of July 2016 approaches....

Financial planning

ASIC warns retail investors against the risks of dealing with unlicensed binary options providers singling out Opteck.com in specific warning. ...

Funds management

Former UBS managing director Colin Woods has launched his own funds management house, Pan-Tribal Asset Management. ...

Financial planning

ASIC issues fraudster warning...

Financial planning

Accountant, Mervyn Ross Tarrant, has failed to have a seven-year ban from providing financial services overturned by the Federal Court of Australia....

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