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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

ASIC issues fraudster warning...

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