Most of the industry input around advice education standards came from institutions and industry associations, and lacked input from all stakeholders....
Financial planners should offer tailored licensing regimes with certain authorisations to accountants instead of trying to shoehorn them into the planner model, The Fold ...
Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....
ASIC numbers revealed application and approval numbers remained low for accountants even as the removal of the accountants exemption for advising on SMSFs loomed....
The FSC proposed a 22 per cent company tax rate in its tax reform package to boost Australia’s competitiveness while lower tax rates would be paid for by a higher GST....
A former Macquarie Equities Limited representative has been banned from providing financial services following investigations by ASIC as part of its Wealth Management Pro...
Robo-advice should be used to examine investors’ choices and enhance their investments rather than starting from scratch. ...
A lobby group has opposed the Government’s move to limit brokers’ use of client funds to hedge against their financial risks. ...
Financial advisers were ‘pawns’ in the financial industry to distribute products in the past, but this will no longer cut muster, a consultant firm principal believes. ...
Reforms to education for advisers should include pathways for existing advisers, and risk advisers with decades of experience should not have to re-train....
ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....
The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....
ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
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...