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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ruling permanently banning an investment adviser from acti...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned another financial adviser from the industry after involvement in a notorious Nigerian l...

Financial planning

A restricted definition for the terms ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ would protect consumers from shonky operators pretending to be financial planners, accor...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to industry concerns about the need to regularly prepare supplementary product disclosure statem...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has refused to make any further moves in redressing the error which originally placed Brisbane-based Community...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed extra conditions on the securities dealers’ licences of Permanent Trustee Company and Permanent Inv...

Financial planning

Godfrey Pembroke has long been regarded as a premium financial planning group, but with new owners and a new chief, will it retain that crown? Lucie Beaman looks at the G...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a South Australian man from acting as an investment adviser or as a representative of a securities ...

Financial planning

The process involved in obtaining an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence may be arduous and time-consuming but at least it’s relatively straight-forward. What is ...

Financial planning

The ASIC/ACA survey reflected the reality that our industry and profession is undergoing a process of dumbing down, says Rob Keavney....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) attempt to set up its own in house professional indemnity (PI) insurance scheme for members has suffered a setback as a result ...

Financial planning

The credibility of the recent report into the quality of financial planning advice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consu...

Financial planning

The Financial Industry Complaints Scheme (FICS) has agreed to undergo major changes after an independent review called for a revaluation of its complaints handling proced...

Financial planning

Following its recent damning report into the planning industry, ASIC is pledging to come down hard on wayward planning groups, but some say the watchdog is overstepping t...

Financial planning

The recent ACA/ASIC survey was particularly scathing of the quality of financial planning advice provided by large distributors. George Liondis investigates....

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

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

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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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