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The industry is full of elephants, says Rob Keavney, but the elephants’ days are numbered....

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has backed the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) recent comments in defending the Financial Services Reform ...

Financial planning

Tower Limited confirmed today that Guinness Peat Group (GPG) will act as underwriter to its NZ$210.8 million ($185 million) recapitalisation raising despite the latter ha...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia will make a series of recommendations to industry regulators and the Federal Government on a standard level of disclo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have called for a greater industry effort to b...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned former financial adviser David Paul Mudge from acting as a representative of a securiti...

Financial planning

Former Burnie-based insurance agent and financial adviser Joachim Prehn, who had been sentenced to six years jail last year by the Supreme Court of Tasmania, has successf...

Financial planning

Financial services group Challenger International and Kerry Packer’s CPH Investment Corp have officially combined in a $1.1 billion merger....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released details of how it will administer conduct and disclosure requirements for financial planners unde...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lodged an appeal in the Federal Court contesting an Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision to reinstate the sec...

Financial planning

Former Harts Australasia executive director Maxwell John Sweetman appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today after being charged with two counts of insider trading....

Financial planning

Financial services group Tower Australia will meet the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in court tomorrow after incorrect payments were made to its...

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 Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a South Australian financial adviser from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or of a...

Financial planning

A Hobart doctor has been committed to stand trial on 33 counts of fraudulently inducing a person to deal in securities as a result of an investigation by the Australian S...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks 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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