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Editorial

With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...

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Financial planning

Suncorp confirms Vero is applying a ‘selective’ approach to approving directors and officers insurance to planning groups....

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Life/Risk

We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...

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Financial planning

A former Hogan and Partners stockbroker has been sentenced to four years in jail following an ASIC investigation into fraudulent and deceptive conduct....

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Financial planning

David Hobbs, who was described by ASIC as the ‘mastermind’ behind a $30 million Ponzi scheme, was handed the largest penalty in the regulator’s history....

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Superannuation

A former self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) adviser has received concurrent suspended sentences of 18-months' imprisonment for obtaining financial advantage by decep...

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Policy & Regulation

The dawning realisation that grandfathering arrangements may be put in jeopardy is likely to create a spike in the number of planners changing dealer groups before 30 Jun...

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Editorial

As planners grapple with how to implement the changes flowing from the FOFA reforms, David Hasib examines the stark choices that many will have to make, including actuall...

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Policy & Regulation

The implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms looks set to remain "medium soft" until 1 July 2014, according to Shadow Treasurer Mathias Cormann. ...

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Financial planning

Vero confirms its selective approach on planner PI while Cormann queries current regime. ...

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Editorial

ASIC's guidance on FOFA's fee disclosure requirements prompted an almost audible sigh of relief from the financial planning industry....

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Financial planning

Increased regulatory scrutiny faced by research houses from 1 September this year might result in increased costs....

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Financial planning

AFA canvasses concept that two-tiered code of conduct with ethics and providing good advice is more important than obviating opt-in....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained interim court orders against Sydney financial adviser Gabriel Nakhl....

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Financial planning

ASIC ordered AAA planners to be covered by the dealer group’s PI insurance policy until 29 January, 2014....

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