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Financial planning

Australian banks accounted for the second-highest financial penalties in 2020, just after American banks, with total fines reaching $981.06 million, according to Finbold....

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Policy & Regulation

The tax office is imposing more educational directives where self-managed superannuation fund members have breached regulatory contraventions in a bid to prevent reoffend...

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Policy & Regulation

A key document tabled after questioning by a Parliamentary Committee has revealed who the major beneficiaries were of the millions of dollars extracted by the Australian ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been handed tougher penalties with which to pursue people referred to it by the Royal Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is moving to introduce legislation which will have the effect of doubling the criminal and civil penalties which can be imposed against both corpor...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled the likelihood that it will become significantly more litigious in the wake of the Royal Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

The Turnbull Government will strengthen criminal and civil penalties for corporate and financial misdeeds, following revelations of staggering misconduct in this week’s R...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has paid $180,000 for four infringement notices for breaches of responsible lending law....

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Policy & Regulation

CommSec paid a penalty of $700,000 to comply with two infringement notices and voluntarily refunded $1.1 million in brokerage to over 25,000 clients....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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