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Policy & Regulation

The ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies will be extended following a consultation by the Treasury, removing an impediment to the FASEA exam exte...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should report any concerns they have about superannuation funds breaking the intra-fund advice rules to the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have been lumped in with people the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges are involved in inappropriate behaviour around superannuat...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian financial services licence of one financial services providers has been cancelled while another has been revoked. ...

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Financial planning

The Government is finding itself under pressure to support class order relief around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetable in the wake of th...

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has written to market participants to ask they act appropriately to ensure a resilient stockmarket. ...

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Financial planning

Dealer groups have done well to equip advisers with guidelines and interpretations for any queries their clients have....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission granted class order relief with respect to advisers being required to be members of a code-monitoring body and questi...

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Policy & Regulation

A Queensland financial adviser has pleaded guilty to dishonestly using around $1.1m of client money for his own use. ...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has received tough written questioning from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission around how it calculates the impacts of early ac...

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Financial planning

Bimaljeet Sekhon and Alan Davies have received three-year bans, while former Millennium3 authorised representative, Christopher Harris has been banned by the corporate re...

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Policy & Regulation

Implementation of the key financial products design and distribution obligations has been deferred until well into the second half of next year....

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Policy & Regulation

Firms marketing fixed term investment products as a substitute for bank term deposits have been placed on notice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. ...

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Funds management

Online investment provider Six Park is temporarily reducing its minimum investment threshold and waiving investment management fees to encourage more Australians to in...

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Financial planning

Pershing Securities Australia is the first company in the country to face criminal prosecution for breaching client money provisions....

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