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Financial planning

A former financial adviser of Tasmania has been charged with 17 offences for falsifying documents to transfer shares. ...

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Financial planning

Australian financial services licensees are no longer required to notify ASIC of a professional year arrangement between themselves and a new entrant....

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Financial planning

RI Advice may have avoided a penalty for its breach of cybersecurity risks but future breaches could incur a penalty as high as $525 million, according to the regulator....

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Financial planning

In an Australian first, the Federal Court has found RI Advice breached its license obligations to act efficiently and fairly when it failed to have adequate risk manageme...

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Policy & Regulation

Dr Roger Munro has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to three counts of fraud....

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Expert Analysis

General advice may help you reach a broader audience, but personal advice provides a better way to meet client needs and manage compliance risk, writes Steve Davison....

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Policy & Regulation

Westpac has been ordered to pay penalties of $113 million for compliance failures in banking, superannuation, wealth management and insurance....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services Pty Limited....

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Outsider

It is well-known that Outsider is always up for a celebration, so he is breaking out the champers for an unusual anniversary noted by the Senate Estimates committee. ...

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Features

Liam Cormican explores what factors might have driven a higher proportion of people to fail the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s first financial adviser...

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Outsider

It is well-known that Outsider is always up for a celebration, so he is breaking out the champers for an unusual anniversary noted by the Senate Estimates committee....

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Financial planning

Data from ASIC has revealed the numbers of advisers on the Financial Adviser Register who are still yet to pass the financial adviser exam with only three sittings remain...

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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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