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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...
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ASIC has announced its finalised industry funding levy, detailing how much licensees will have to pay for the 2023-24 financial year and how it compares to original estim...
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The corporate regulator has cancelled two AFSLs, one against a Western Australia financial advice firm and one against an individual. ...
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ASIC has warned licensees are demonstrating an “acceptance for internal non-compliance” when it comes to the reportable situations regime as a review finds a licensee too...
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ASIC has suspended the AFSL of a Sydney fund manager, which operates a managed investment scheme, over repeated failures to comply with licensee obligations....
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Wealth Data has shared an updated ranking of the five largest Australian financial advice licensees, with just 59 advisers separating the firms in the lower half of the t...
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An advice executive has shared how advisers should regularly assess the performance of their licensee, regardless of whether they are looking to leave, in order to preven...
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Entireti chief executive Neil Younger has shared the responsibility and privilege he feels as the head of Australia’s largest advice licensee, and how he aims to prevent ...
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The Financial Services Council has made multiple recommendations to ASIC regarding exercising its powers around AFSLs to mitigate the risk of failing companies including ...
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Having sold Madison to Infocus earlier this year, Clime has now set up a new financial advice licensee with eight advisers....
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With licensees such as Insignia looking to AI for advice efficiencies, they are being urged to write clear AI policies as soon as possible to prevent a “Wild West” of pro...
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ASIC has cancelled a Sydney AFSL for failing to pay a $64,000 AFCA determination related to inappropriate advice, which then had to be paid by the CSLR. ...
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Centrepoint Alliance says it is “just getting started” as it looks to drive growth via expanding all three streams of advisers within the business....
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The financial advice profession has lifted back above the 15,500 mark this week thanks to a double-digit net rise in adviser numbers, according to Wealth Data....
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A closer watch on licensees that fall short on cyber security protections is among a dozen new enforcement priorities announced by the corporate regulator for 2025. ...
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....