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Is there any way to accurately measure adviser quality, asks Robert Keavney....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has come under fire for shutting down a voluntary committee looking into the issue of risk profiling, despite some members claimi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Sydney securities dealer for three years as part of its ongoing investigation into the now defunc...

Financial planning

Another adviser associated with the notorious Wattle Group has pleaded guilty to 62 charges arising from an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) invest...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today scotched claims that it only targets industry big-hitters by stressing it focuses on “wrongdoing, not in...

Financial planning

Financial planners and dealer groups may be held liable for incidental advice or even casual comments after a recent decision by the Financial Industry Complaints Service...

Superannuation

Draft skill standards for advice on self managed super funds are being eagerly accepted by an industry hoping to avoid further regulation by the Australian Securities and...

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific subsidiary, NMMT, has given an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after its failure in lodging a roll...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is continuing its campaign against parties linked to the failed multi-level investment scheme, the Wattle Grou...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have accepted enforceable undertakings from AM Corpo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Perth-based investment adviser for three years after making false and misleading statements to in...

Financial planning

25 per cent of Securities Institute members remain unconvinced the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) recently released guidelines on fee disclosur...

Financial planning

Advisers using a fee-for-service model of financial planning remuneration could face increased professional indemnity (PI) insurance burdens, according to prominent plann...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

The administrators of the failed Wattle Group have pleaded guilty to charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests in contravention of the...

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