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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned former Victorian finance broker, Rudy Noel Frugtniet, from engaging in credit activities....

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Financial planning

A Sydney woman employed by a company trading as Premium Financial and Retirement Solutions has pleaded guilty to four charges of fraud after an ASIC investigation....

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Policy & Regulation

AIOFP has called on the Federal Government to reintroduce an ownership disclosure regime and for the equal prosecution of executives who have overseen poor advice....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds risk falling foul of new legislation due to inconsistent fee and cost disclosure practices, an ASIC report reveals....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged the calling of a national summit to resolve the issues raised in the 61 recommendations of the Senate Committee report....

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Financial planning

ASIC has secured an interim order preventing Vault Market Pty Ltd and its director, MD Anamul Amin, from carrying on a financial services business without an Australian F...

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the licence of Finance Technology Securities (FTS) after concerns it was inappropriately recommending double gearing strategies....

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Financial planning

A number of CBA planners have declared their anger at comments made by the FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe....

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Financial planning

ASIC has acknowledged the CBA’s new compensation and review processes by reminding the banking group of its ongoing breach reporting obligations....

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Editorial

The Government may have moved to “rebalance” FOFA, but bipartisanship remains a forlorn hope....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry suffered substantial collateral damage as a result of the collapse of Storm Financial but, as Mike Taylor reports, last week’s Senate Comm...

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Financial planning

A former financial planner who is serving a 13-year prison sentence has been permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activity by the A...

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Policy & Regulation

Australia has developed a regulatory protection regime for investors which is inferior, according to Paul Resnik. ...

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Financial planning

A former WealthSure financial adviser has been jailed after transferring around half a million dollars out of clients’ accounts without their knowledge. ...

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Financial planning

Dealer groups and consumers must do their part to surveil the financial advice profession, with ASIC’s resources allowing it limited reign over the “high risk” industry, ...

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