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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to tell planners ‘what good looks like’ in its five-year corporate plan....
Superannuation
Underperforming superannuation funds have been put on notice by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to shape up or be forcibly shipped out of the superannuatio...
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched an independent prudential inquiry into governance and culture at the Commonwealth Bank....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...
Financial planning
Some miscreant financial planners may have left the planning industry and thus avoided prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but face actio...
Superannuation
Superannuation fund trustees should not be subject to the same penalties that apply to directors of Managed Investment Schemes and should be allowed lee-way for ‘honest m...
Features
Laura Sullivan and Grant Holley compile seven lessons that will ensure financial firms comply with financial services laws....
Editorial
The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....
Features
The Government has opted to go with a ‘one stop shop’ approach to financial services external dispute resolution, but there is the real prospect of higher costs being imp...
Life/Risk
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....
Financial planning
Former FPA chief professionalism officer, Deen Sanders has been named as the inaugural head of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed that many advisers are still wondering why they have been entangled in the Tax Agent Service Act regime....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has laid bare the reality that professional indemnity insurance doesn’t adequately protect the interests of consumers...
Financial planning
While advisers may want to switch platforms, a practice’s choice of platform relies on the relationship with the BDM....
Financial planning
The manner in which the Future of Financial Advice changes crimped the revenue streams of the major licensees has been confirmed as helping drive the rise of managed acco...
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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 ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...