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Financial adviser Timothy Shapter has been banned for seven years for failing best interests duty and his licensee Smart Solutions has had its licence cancelled....
Financial planning
Additional licence conditions have been placed on BGC Securities Australia in relation to its fixed income business....
Life/Risk
Legislation surrounding the regulation of claims handling may have insurers and related parties look to fall under a single Australian Financial Services License to ease ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments commission has cancelled the Australian financial service licence of KP International Group Australia due to resignation of all ...
Funds management
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken further steps to wind up Chris Marco’s alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has granted planning licensees a three-year exemption from the requirements to have planners sign up to a code-monito...
Financial planning
ASIC has imposed additional conditions to improve governance and conflicts management after considering Royal Commission concerns....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government is consulting on draft regulations and legislation to remove the Corporations Act exemption for funeral insurance policies....
Financial planning
The Institute of Public Accountants has emerged at the head of a new push to reinstate the Accountants’ Exemption....
Financial planning
The Queensland-based firm has until February 2020 to comply with outstanding obligations....
Policy & Regulation
Platinum Perpetual Globe Private Wealth has lost its Australian financial services licence after charges brought by Western Australian police....
Financial planning
Following a remediation program Suncorp has compensated 4,000 GuardianFP clients....
Features
The financial services regulator responded to Royal Commission criticism with a ‘why not litigate?’ approach. Jassmyn Goh finds out what this means for advisers and how t...
Financial planning
The firm will acquire Count Financial from Commbank for $2.5 million....
Features
Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...
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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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...