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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission staff are likely to leave their public service salaries behind to embrace financial services market rates....

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Policy & Regulation

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission report has found that financial planning groups are mostly meeting their obligations with respect to professional inde...

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Superannuation

ASIC has outlined new requirements for the disclosure of fees and charges superannuation and managed investment funds....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

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Policy & Regulation

The big four banks have agreed to specific contractual changes with ASIC to eliminate unfair terms from their agreements....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that the pool of advisers at risk of churning life/risk policies is as few as 50 people....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s new cost recovery levy could reduce the services licensees offer if they cannot afford to pay multiple levies, according to The Fold Legal....

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Financial planning

Brisbane-based former financial planner, Neil Bruce has been banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is looking to crackdown on financial services licensees seeking to avoid their obligations by claiming personal advi...

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, Greg Medcraft has canvassed extending the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to other financial services industr...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants the power to dig through the managerial layers to ban the real culprits....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed soft dollar arrangements together with ‘profit sharing’ remain a factor for insurance within super mand...

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Financial planning

Ex-AMP Financial Planning adviser, Daniel Joseph Noonan has been permanently banned by ASIC after he misappropriated $2.5 million. ...

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Financial planning

Some miscreant financial planners may have left the planning industry and thus avoided prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but face actio...

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Financial planning

The AFA has seriously questioned the value of ASIC’s oversight of codes of conduct, noting that the FOFA ‘opt-in’ code took years and is the only one in existence....

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