REGULATION

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

Constant regulatory changes such as FOFA and grandfathering have halted projects to enhance platforms, a financial firm said....

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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

Being bombarded by regulation changes meant advisers were yet to embrace improving client communication by adapting a customised mobile strategy....

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Financial planning

With the financial services sector undergoing an unprecedented amount of regulatory change a financial services executive and lawyer has launched a firm to give SMEs lega...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks ago

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. ...

3 days 9 hours ago

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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