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Financial planning

An embarrassed ASIC has imposed license conditions on Comm FP and Financial Wisdom as short-comings in compensation arrangements are revealed....

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Financial planning

CBA says it has worked with customers to “put things right”, after the corporate regulator moved to address inconsistent compensation to customers of two CBA-owned planni...

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Financial planning

Australian Mutual Holdings Limited receives $20,400 in penalties after ASIC issues two infringement notices over PDSs. ...

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Superannuation

ASIC declares it is taking a close look at one-stop shops seeking to traverse SMSF establishment and property investment. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a Gold Coast advisory group related to deficiencies in monitoring and supervising its planners...

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Financial planning

The FPA is concerned that Budget cuts impacting ASIC may, in turn, impact planners in higher costs....

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Financial planning

Measures in the Abbott Government’s inaugural budget have divided financial planning groups, prompting both praise and condemnation. ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been told by the Government to “adjust its priorities” to achieve savings of $120.1 million over five year...

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Financial planning

A Budget user-pays approach to financial services regulation could hit licensee and other planning costs....

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Financial planning

The AFP and ASIC have charged an ABS public servant and a NAB employee with insider trading netting $7 million....

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Life/Risk

Businesses that sell general or life insurance, or offer credit as an ‘add-on’ insurance offering, should be on guard as they come under ASIC scrutiny, a law firm warns....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC should outsource PDS approvals to an independent research panel funded by planner levy. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC considers allowing managed investment schemes to be automatically registered, with non-compliant schemes regulated by stop-orders....

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Financial planning

A Sydney finance executive has been charged with insider trading after allegedly operating on insights from a close friend who was employed by a large financial services ...

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Superannuation

With the increased scrutiny of self-managed super funds (SMSF) from the regulator, the soon-to-be-introduced penalty regime for trustees and the increasing diligence of S...

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