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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted a permanent undertaking from an Adelaide-based financial adviser to permanently refrain from providing financial services....

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Financial planning

Nomura Australia has paid a $30,000 penalty to ASIC after receiving a market infringement penalty from ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel....

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Funds management

iShares has announced their support of ASIC's latest report on the regulation of ETFs in Australia and international principles impacting ETFs in Australia....

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Editorial

Amid the furore over a document purporting to be an agreement between the Financial Planning Association and the Industry Super Network, Money Management's Mike Taylor pu...

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Funds management

Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is up to proposed international standards, according to an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report....

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Financial planning

Unlisted property schemes will be required to adhere to six new disclosure benchmarks from 1 November 2012....

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Financial planning

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has called for higher levels of competency in the provision of financial advice following recent damni...

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Policy & Regulation

SPAA will work with ASIC to develop its in-house code of conduct so that SPAA members are exempt from opt-in requirements when the FOFA reforms take effect....

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Financial planning

The ownership of financial planners by product manufacturers creates one of the main barriers to improving the quality of advice in Australia, according to ASIC....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA's Mark Rantall has told a Money Management roundtable that asset-based fees should not act as an impediment to ASIC providing class-order relief from opt-in....

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Financial planning

The number of companies entering liquidation is continuing to break records, with 10,544 companies entering some form of insolvency administration in the year to January ...

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA's code of conduct will not be the only approach considered by ASIC, with the Association of Financial Advisers's principles of practice also ready for implementat...

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Policy & Regulation

Following Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten's announcement regarding a watering-down of opt-in requirements yesterday, ANZ was still prepari...

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Policy & Regulation

FOFA bills containing key opt-in amendments pass House of Representatives....

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Financial planning

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

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