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Policy & Regulation

There has been an upsurge in retail investors seeking to time the market in pursuit of quick profits and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned t...

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Financial planning

Some of Australia’s largest financial advice groups are facing the problem of too few advisers who are degree qualified leading to the need for strong succession planning...

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Financial planning

The FPA has partnered with three fintech providers to allow advisers provide early super advice more efficiently....

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Policy & Regulation

Scott Morrison, a former director at Olive Financial Markets, has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for seven years for failing to act i...

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Life/Risk

Amid suggestions by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority that the Activities of Daily Living regime is “very tough”, the major insurers have flagged key changes ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has challenged the sense and workability of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposals around time-limited supera...

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Life/Risk

Life insurance commissions should be retained in the life/risk industry with no change to their structure, according to major insurer ClearView....

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Superannuation

Government Senators are claiming vindication because a senior Treasury official has suggested Industry Super Australia may have used inappropriate data to inflate the imp...

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Life/Risk

Life insurers should be prepared to go further than their own Life Insurance Code of Conduct to help clients impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Australia...

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Financial planning

The checking mechanisms employed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission prevented a licensee from employing a currently banned adviser....

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Superannuation

Australians are being targeted by scammers posing to be from Government agencies and that real estate agents are now telephoning tenants to access their super before aski...

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Policy & Regulation

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

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Life/Risk

Synchron director, Don Trapnell, said life/risk advisers are being treated unfairly under the education requirements and deserve a separate standard suited to the profess...

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Financial planning

Troubled property investment firm Mayfair 101 has launched its next strategy, a fixed income property bond investing in a tourist resort in Mission Beach, Queensland. ...

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Financial planning

The firm’s Australian financial services licence was suspended in February but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has granted a stay in its effect on conditions....

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