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Financial planning

The outcome of research by the corporate regulator into access into advice is unlikely to be published publicly and will instead form part of the Quality of Advice Review...

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People & Products

ASIC commissioner, Cathie Armour, is to leave the corporate regulator after nine years next month. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Westpac-subsidiary BT Funds Management has been fined $20 million for incorrectly charging commission payments to certain superannuation fund members....

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Financial planning

Temporary measures allowing financial advisers to provide a Record of Advice rather than a Statement of Advice will cease from 15 April after two years, the regulator has...

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Superannuation

Superannuation trustees have revised their policies after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission found a lack of oversight and control measures in relation ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken action against Macquarie Bank for failing to adequately monitor and control transactions by third parties, ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Melbourne-based adviser Mark Christopher Babbage from providing financial services or engaging in credit a...

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Financial planning

While guidance for advisers is welcome, the onus is also on the Government to educate consumers on how much weight they should give finfluencers versus licensed professio...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed 10 financial advice misconduct criminal cases are before the courts with six civil cases also yet to be...

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Financial planning

The percentage of candidates who passed February’s financial adviser exam, the first one under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has fallen to 32.4%. ...

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Financial planning

The regulator’s guidance on ‘finfluencers’ is welcome but more needs to be done to protect consumers, according to Stockspot, including banning them from product commissi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has commenced surveillance into the marketing of managed funds following recent enforcement against fund managers mis...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned Australian financial services licensees that they could be liable for misconduct if they work with financi...

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Financial planning

The acquisition has brought a new combined entity of WT Financial Group and Synchron to 560 advisers, as per Australian Securities Investment Commissions’ Financial Advis...

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has permanently banned former authorised representative, Roderick Halligan, from providing financial services for contravening financial services laws and f...

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