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In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....

Financial planning

Wattle Group investment scheme founder Geoffrey Robert Dexter has received a 10-year jail sentence for his part in the investment scam that rocked the investment industry...

Financial planning

An Adelaide adviser has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for falsifying documents offered to an ASIC investigation....

Financial planning

Cold calling is finding a new lease of life as offshore groups seek investors to part with their cash. Yet many of these are either not licensed to operate or even on the...

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association (FPA) members will provide one free interview to victims of defaulting solicitors’ mortgage schemes....

Financial planning

ASIC has signalled it is getting serious about financial planners who have a conflict of interest by charging and convicting a former National Australia Bank (NAB) financ...

Financial planning

Former Garrisons financial planner Phillip John Maguire has been banned from acting as a financial adviser due to bankruptcy....

Financial planning

Nick Bruining offers some invaluable advice for surviving this year’s FPA Convention in Melbourne....

Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Funds Management chief and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) deputy chairman David Knott is to take the top job at the investment...

Financial planning

FORMER Financial Wisdom financial planner Robyn Ann-Carrolle Cochrane has pleaded guilty to 28 charges of fraud, following an investigation by the Australian Securities a...

Financial planning

Improving the image of financial planners in the eyes of Australian consumers will be the cornerstone to Ken Breakspear’s strategy for the Financial Planning Association....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned a record 50 investment advisers in 1999/2000, compared to just 17 the year before....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned a record 50 investment advisers in 1999/2000, compared to just 17 the year before....

Financial planning

A Melbourne based accountant has pleaded guilty to ordering the redeeming of superannuation money on behalf of clients who had not qualified for retirement....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced an enforceable undertaking action on Grosvenor Securities’ 40 advisers, following a surveillance...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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