STORM FINANCIAL

Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...

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Editorial

When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...

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Editorial

As the curtain comes down on the current Parliament, financial services players are left to wonder whether the Government should not have just stuck to the script reflect...

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Financial planning

ASIC has reached a $1.1 million out of court settlement with BOQ, Senrac and Macquarie Bank in a high-profile Storm Financial case....

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Financial planning

The principal of Levitt Robinson has said it is inappropriate for the corporate watchdog to launch an appeal against an $82.5 million settlement between former Storm Fina...

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Financial planning

ASIC uses Macquarie’s Storm settlement to challenge premium handed to those who fund class actions....

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Financial planning

The award of a premium to Storm Financial victims who bankrolled part of a class action against Macquarie Bank could encourage self-funded group litigation, a Brisbane si...

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Financial planning

It may have been more than a year since the Industry Super Network (ISN) toned down its television advertising impacting financial planners, but they continue to suffer a...

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Editorial

Legal experts Samantha Hills and Grant Holley dissect the best interests duty and the obligations that come with it....

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Editorial

Dealer groups are not the only financial services companies being forced to adapt to the new FOFA environment, with Instreet Investment’s George Lucas explaining that fun...

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Financial planning

Due to conflicts surrounding the link between product and advice, large parents of financial planning groups should use monitoring mechanisms to ensure the advice provide...

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Financial planning

Storm investors who will receive the $82.5 million settlement from Macquarie Bank will have to acknowledge that the bank did nothing wrong....

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Editorial

The last year has not been kind to the Australian margin lending market, with further declines in the number of active investors. But a potential rally in the equities ma...

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Editorial

It would seem that in the mind of the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, accountants need to shoulder none of the responsibility for investors being burned by...

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Editorial

While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....

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JOHN GILLIES

Might be a bit different to i the past where at most there was one man from the industry on the loaded enquiry boards a...

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

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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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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. ...

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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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