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Financial planning

ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...

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Financial planning

Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....

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Editorial

The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...

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Editorial

When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...

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Financial planning

A former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to 10 charges of providing false loan applications to lenders totaling almost $3.8 million....

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Financial planning

It was not a formal valedictory but Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, used an FSC function to thank those involved in the FOFA and financial services policy chan...

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Superannuation

Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...

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Financial planning

ASIC has released an information sheet on limited AFSLs, explaining in further detail their definition and scope....

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Editorial

The Future of Financial Advice regime will become law from 1 July, but as the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo points out, many questions vital to the finan...

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Financial planning

ASIC launches Federal Court action over moves around sale of the Premium Income Fund....

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Superannuation

After ASIC refused to provide an exemption to corporate super specialists under the FOFA reforms' conflicted remuneration provisions, the Corporate Super Specialist Allia...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former Lifestyle Group chief executive Murray John Priestley from providing financial services for ...

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Life/Risk

APRA buys into lapse/churn debate but points to particular problems with respect to directly-marketed products....

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Funds management

As part of its ongoing review of the sector, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released updated regulatory guidance for operators of registe...

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