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Financial planning

Former Colonial financial planner William Richard Berghouse has been given a lifetime ban from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser fro...

Financial planning

An administrator has been appointed to the Victorian Soho Lemon Management scheme. Director Peter Russell-Clarke says he requested an administrator be appointed to protec...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is unfairly hounding managers of strata investments who comply with the Managed Investments Act while allowing ...

Financial planning

Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

Financial planning

Alan Cameron probably has the most unenviable job in the Australian financial services industry....

Financial planning

The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) has secured its first gaol sentence under the Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act with the sentencing of Royce C...

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The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) has secured its first gaol sentence under the Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act with the sentencing of Royce C...

Financial planning

Before falling foul of the law and losing $165 million on behalf of it investors, the Wattle scheme had lured about 3000 investors and at least 10 financial advisers into...

Financial planning

At least another three advisers are still to feel the sting of the investment watchdog in the wash up to the failed Wattle Group scheme....

Financial planning

Former Perth AMP financial adviser Anastasis Darcy Papas has been sentenced to 10 years jail on stealing and fraud charges totally $703,000....

Financial planning

The recently announced mega-mergers in our industry have made me wonder is bigger better, and if so for whom? ASIC believes bigger makes their job easier. They are raisin...

Financial planning

Some of you must wonder sometimes whether I enjoy being in the financial serv-ices industry. Well I do. Few other industries could be more dynamic, more suited to electro...

Financial planning

IntegraTec is challenging the FPA's Diploma of Financial Planning (DFP) course, after its latest course gained the go ahead from ASIC and the Vocational Educa-tion and Tr...

Financial planning

Australia could get its second regional stock exchange with the announcement that the Bendigo Stock Exchange (BSX) may be granted a stock exchange licence....

Financial planning

In response to the growing interest in share investing by Australians and as part of new regulations the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will offer...

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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....

1 week 6 days ago

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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