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Financial planning

The Financial Services Union has shown concern that “systemic and cultural problems” in the big banks have led to poor advice outcomes, following revealing evidence from ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accused financial services licensees of wanting to make clients actively opt-in to the remediation process around...

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator said it has completed a compliance review and remediation program, and removed additional licence conditions, for Total Financial Solutions Australia....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it does not have enough information to know about inappropriate payments attaching to direct life sales....

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Financial planning

AMP will be the first financial advice group to give testimony before the Royal Commission as it enters its round two hearings today....

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Policy & Regulation

The securities regulator has banned Mark Menzies from providing advice for four years following an investigation which found he had manipulated the price of 'MINI' warran...

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Commonwealth Financial Planning and BW Financial Advice for charging fees to customers for advice reviews that ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has released draft legislation allowing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to recoup its costs from industry at the rate of $175....

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Superannuation

Spaceship Financial Services and Tidswell Financial services have each paid a $12,600 penalty, following an Australian Securities and Investments Commissions investigatio...

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Financial planning

The Australian Banker’s Association has backed extracting product recommendations from the delivery of advice....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been urged not to allow the newly-formed Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name and shame relatively l...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC is continuing to bring SMSF auditors under greater scrutiny with the regulator making two disqualifications this week for a failure to report legislative contraventi...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ANZ, following a finding by the regulator that the bank had failed to pr...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission sees breach reporting as an integral part of industry professionalism....

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has placed significant restrictions upon AFS licence holders that hold client money for trading in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives....

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