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Financial planning

Financial adviser, Travis Byron McLean, has been banned from providing financial services for five years after failing to comply with financial services laws. ...

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Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....

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Superannuation

ASIC has disqualified an SMSF auditor after he audited the fund of a close family member and breached audit evidence requirements....

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Financial planning

A former mortgage broker from ALC Group has been sentenced to more than eight years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to deception....

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Financial planning

Many financial advisers are already using better statements of advice than the sample SOA being proposed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, accordin...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has laid bare the reality that professional indemnity insurance doesn’t adequately protect the interests of consumers...

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Financial planning

A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has placed the platform industry on notice around the new standards of fee transparency it will be enforcing....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has nominated life/risk churn as an area still high on its agenda and deserving of new expenditure....

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Superannuation

If industry funds are donating or otherwise transmitting money to trade unions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it won’t necessarily know....

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Financial planning

Apple and Google have removed binary option mobile apps from their app stores after a review from ASIC that found over 330 apps appeared to be unlicensed....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an EU offered by Financial Index Australia after surveillance found various concerns in policies and procedures in its financial advice business....

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Life/Risk

A land banking scheme in Geelong with a cancelled Australian Financial Services License has been closed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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