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Financial planning

ASIC uses Macquarie’s Storm settlement to challenge premium handed to those who fund class actions....

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Editorial

ASIC was right when it issued a warning to financial services licensees to ensure they have “robust recruitment processes” in place when appointing people who have previo...

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Financial planning

Payday lender Nimble Australia has changed its advertising following ASIC concerns it was potentially misleading....

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Financial planning

Clients with mainly cash holdings not enough to sway ASIC on planner PI requirements....

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Financial planning

As it continues its discussions with industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the commencement of upcoming disclosure benchmarks...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that just four months out from an election, the political temperature is high and perceptions can skew reality....

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Financial planning

Specialist accounting software provider MYOB has announced a new online portal for small business services that it claims will help accountants enhance their client relat...

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Financial planning

The award of a premium to Storm Financial victims who bankrolled part of a class action against Macquarie Bank could encourage self-funded group litigation, a Brisbane si...

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Financial planning

Former Lonsec Stockbroking Services managing director Norman John Graham has been convicted on two charges of insider trading and fined $30,000....

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Financial planning

Charitable investment funds act like banks so they should be regulated as such, according to ASIC....

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Money Choice director Matthew George had his PIPA membership suspended days after the regulator banned him from the industry and cancelled his firm’s credit licence....

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Financial planning

The ACCC is conducting a public review into the proposed merger between Perpetual and The Trust Company....

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Financial planning

The Salisbury Group (TSG), a planning business with 50 planners, has gone into administration following the recent closure of Australian Financial Services (AFS). ...

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Financial planning

A British Virgin Islands-based company has consented to Federal Court orders preventing it from selling shares and providing financial services in Australia....

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Editorial

As a result of RG79 section D, ‘Avoiding, controlling and disclosing conflicts of interest’, what has your firm changed, or what will it change, in terms of both its busi...

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