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Financial planning

A change in attitude towards money and out-dated trust fund structures were acting as a lethal combination, leading to increased trust fund disputes....

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Financial planning

Financial services lawyer, Peter Bobbin, warns that ASIC has neither the culture nor the expertise to handle a product intervention power....

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Financial planning

Former clients of WealthSure authorised representative, Colin Oberg, have secured a Federal Court ruling ordering the firm to pay $865,000 in compensation....

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Superannuation

While setting up with an individual trustee in an SMSF may be a cheaper option, it eventually creates a false economy, Holley Nethercote argues....

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers have been blamed alongside lawyers for pushing the multitude of claims which placed pressure on TPD products within superannuation funds....

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Funds management

Australian fund managers developing products for the SIV market would need to cater their products to suit their low appetite for risk in their investments....

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Financial planning

A life/risk adviser has been banned for four years by ASIC who acted on information provided by his licensee, Risk Advice Specialists, which has ceased to trade....

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Financial planning

Financial services laws need to catch up with technological developments like peer-to-peer lending to avoid expensive and cumbersome applications of the provisions, a law...

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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