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A Menai-based insurance broking firm has had its licence suspended for seven months following surveillance conducted by the ASIC....

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Financial planning

The same regulator critical of financial planner responses in a shadow shopping exercise has turned in a 100 per cent fail in responding to parliamentary questions on tim...

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Financial planning

The financial services regulator is continuing its review of financial requirements for product issuers in various sectors of the industry, with a number of consultation ...

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Financial planning

Financial services players have taken aim at competition concerns and potential conflicts in institutionally owned investment platforms....

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Financial planning

The Government should take a long-term economic view in its efforts to return the budget to surplus amid major issues concerning market forces, household debt and uncerta...

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Financial planning

The minimum training requirements for financial planners providing advice on carbon financial products has been finalised by ASIC....

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Financial planning

Once the dust has settled on the current round of industry reforms, the dealer group as we know it may cease to exist, according to senior financial financial advice figu...

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Financial planning

ASIC has rapped 21 financial services licensees across the knuckles for incorrectly marketing themselves as 'independent'....

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Financial planning

Participants in the Financial Planning Association's shadow shopper workshops have called for better clarity from the regulator, as ASIC commissioner Peter Kell elaborate...

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Financial planning

Recent changes to the laws governing platforms, such as an increase to the net tangible asset requirement, will make it harder for dealer groups to bring platform service...

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Financial planning

Compliant industry codes of conduct deemed to obviate the need to comply with opt-in requirements will have to meet a hefty set of criteria, according to ASIC commissione...

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser after he was found to have forged the signatures of four of his clients....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has welcomed the announcement by Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury exempting financial planners from the taxation services regime unti...

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Financial planning

A former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser has been permanently banned by ASIC after it was found he had forged the signatures of four of his clients....

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Financial planning

Paul Derham and Sonnie Bailey share a few mistakes they’ve seen financial planners make over the years and outline tips for saving time and money....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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