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Financial planning

The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....

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Financial planning

Equity Trustees restructures to increase Responsible Entity servicing....

Financial planning

The number of advisers with margin lending authorisation is surprisingly low, although this may be due to continuing conservatism, according to Claire Wivell Plater, mana...

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Financial planning

The Hong Kong-based businessman named at the centre of the Astarra collapse, Jack Flader, has denied substantial involvement....

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Financial planning

Customers of The Rock Building Society, which has strong ties with some financial planning companies, were overcharged more than $150,000 in unjustified fees over the pas...

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Financial planning

Two former industry players sentenced after action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Financial planning

The former director of Power Financial Planning, who dealt in Westpoint products, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment....

Financial planning

A former Hobart planner has been charged with operating without an AFSL....

Financial planning

Former senior manager at KPMG Andrew Dalzell has pleaded guilty to insider trading....

Financial planning

Lloyds extends presence in Australia by becoming an ADI....

Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten declares the consultative process around super reforms won’t be allowed to alter the ultimate policy outcome....

Financial planning

Lawyers are seeking to mount a case to recover investor funds relating to capital protected products....

Financial planning

Financial institutions expect high levels of insolvencies in the small to medium sized business sector in the next 12 months....

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Policy & Regulation

Treasury will begin targeted consultations on the implementation details of the Labor Government’s Future of Financial Advice reforms tomorrow, with a particular fo...

Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld the banning of Melbourne based financial planner Joshua Fuoco from providing financial services for five years for engaging...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months ago

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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