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Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, trading as CommInsure, has been convicted of 87 counts of life insurance hawking after pleading guilty last week....

Life/Risk

CommInsure has been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for offering to sell life insurance products via non-compliant unsolicited phone calls...

Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

Financial planning

A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...

Policy & Regulation

The new industry funding model for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission will see financial planning licensees and credit providers carrying some of the gr...

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