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Financial planning

If all FPA/AFA members join, over half of the Financial Advisers Register could be members of the new FAAA and the organisation will have to work to meet the needs of the...

Financial planning

The Court found the officers of Linchpin Capital Group and Endeavour Securities breached their duties in managing a $17 million managed investment scheme and did not act...

Policy & Regulation

With at least five financial adviser bans, including an adviser who falsified his exam result, the corporate regulator has had a busy start to the year. ...

Financial planning

Financial adviser Jeneve Matai’s ban for providing a ‘layered advice’ strategy would remain after his appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was refused. ...

Funds management

The global asset manager has received a formal warning from the New Zealand financial regulator after failing to disclose earlier ASIC infringement notices as required un...

Financial planning

A Perth financial planning firm has pleaded guilty to three charges of dishonest conduct by falsifying information on client insurance forms....

Financial planning

ASIC has released the pass data for candidates who sat the February financial advice exam. ...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC is to receive an extra $4.3 million from the government to crack down on businesses making misleading sustainability claims as part of plans for an Australian Sustai...

People & Products

Former ASIC commissioner, Cathie Armour, has taken up a board role at Cboe, her first since departing the regulator last year, as director David Trude departs after 11 ye...

Financial planning

A former director from New South Wales has been charged with dishonest conduct in relation to a financial product or service after obtaining $459k from clients for his ow...

Financial planning

Mark McCabe has been charged for dishonestly obtaining over $940,000 from eight people, seven of whom were clients of his companies....

Funds management

ASIC has issued interim stop orders on three BT funds run by Advance Asset Management for DDO failings....

Financial planning

With ASIC proactively reviewing its financial advisers register, further bans on individuals and rising conflicts of interest among small licensees could be likely, accor...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a Sydney-based adviser for changing the result of his financial adviser exam and sending the altered certificate to his licensee....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Queensland adviser for three years for adopting a ‘layered advice’ strategy with clients....

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