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Financial planning

Additional licence conditions have been placed on BGC Securities Australia in relation to its fixed income business....

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Financial planning

Adrian Cassidy has been banned for acting dishonestly by concealing from his licensee recommendations he gave clients to invest in a failed start-up....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned Nicholas Ellis who was previously banned for six years for dishonest conduct....

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

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Financial planning

A major accounting body has warned the Federal Government that its policy to change default superannuation and inject full choice of fund may be undermined by its other p...

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Superannuation

A leading plaintiff law firm has called for employers to be placed under a legal obligation to select the right default superannuation fund for their employees at the sam...

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Superannuation

The average self-managed superannuation fund with a balance less than $200,000 generated negative returns over three successive financial years, according to the Australi...

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Financial planning

The SMSF Association wants the Government to dump its limited licensing regime for accountants on the basis of it having failed to meet its objectives and having, instead...

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Policy & Regulation

Self-Managed Superannuation Funds should be exempted from the Government’s new design and distribution regime because they are not like other financial products, accordin...

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Financial planning

Former AMP and NAB authorised representative David O’Brien has been banned for failing to make sufficient inquiries into his client’s circumstances....

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Financial planning

There has been no shortage of consumers and small businesses looking to file legacy complaints with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, with data suggesting le...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has further suspended Halifax Investments Services’ Australian Financial Services Licence....

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Funds management

Union Standard International Group may proceed against the corporate watchdog for damages arising from inaccurate statements and a failure to mention key matters regardin...

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SMSF

Wayne Blazejczyk recommended clients with low super balances to set up a SMSF and use an admin service he was the owner of and to invest in a fund that he was the investm...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has imposed asset restraint orders against over the counter derivative providers EuropeFX an TradeFred while an investigation by the corporate watchdog ...

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