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A former company director will serve six months jail time after pleading guilty to defrauding investors. ...

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Financial planning

Addwealth Financial Services has been forced to adhere to additional requirements under its Australian financial services licence after surveillance of its advice busines...

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Editorial

ASIC has been handed a mammoth task in delivering FOFA, underscoring the tiny window available to the financial services industry to prepare for the new regulatory regime...

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Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

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Financial planning

Trio Capital victims signal their intention to seek an 'Act of Grace' payment from the Government based on regulators' failings....

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Financial planning

There is some concern in the industry about the language used by ASIC in its consultation papers on the delivery of financial advice....

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Financial planning

Anthony James and Jim Boynton explain why financial planners shouldn’t delay their FOFA implementation....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has received support from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for its new framework aimed at reducing churning in life/ris...

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Financial planning

ASIC is conducting a surveillance campaign to catch out unlicensed credit providers....

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Rate the raters

Lonsec has once again snatched the Money Management Research House of the Year title. However, Morningstar and Mercer are catching up....

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Editorial

The approach ASIC has signaled it will adopt to scaled advice and the best interests duty is a welcome development for financial planning industry....

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Financial planning

Some authorised representatives of banned licensee Morrison Carr claim ASIC did not notify them as soon as the dealer group's licence was cancelled, leaving them practisi...

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Financial planning

The head of TAL-owned Pivotal Financial Advisers, Maria Cheer, will be leaving the company as Craig Parker takes the role, Money Management has confirmed....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has upgraded its consumer-facing website in a move it says is designed to help Australians make informed financial decisions....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....

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