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Policy & Regulation

High risk hedge funds are still under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but the regulator is refusing to reveal how it is going about its b...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found Port Phillip Publishing (PPP) and its former director Kristan Sayce liable for printing a misleading guide ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled its continuing scepticism about mortgage broker commissions while claiming consumer research has valida...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are facing yet more scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as it drills down on a large number of advice files....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will make an example of wrong-doers while suggesting that misconduct by some major financial institu...

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Superannuation

One-in-seven employed people are likely to require financial advice each year but are not willing to pay more than $500....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled a tougher and more targeted approach to advice within superannuation....

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Policy & Regulation

Peter Goudie has been banned by ASIC for prioritising his own interest over his clients’ and not providing SOAs....

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Financial planning

A financial planning principal has questioned whether salaried advisers employed by industry funds to provide intra-fund advice are really just a modern version of the ol...

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Financial planning

Australians have a sense of security when they seek financial advice from larger institutions and advisers should consider this if looking to move to smaller licensees, w...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has changed the rules to allow the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name firms....

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Financial planning

New research undertaken by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that consumers who use advisers actually value them, but that the industry r...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has sued NAB for dealing with unlicensed home loan introducers in one of the first pieces of litigation resulting from the Royal Commission....

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Features

The financial services regulator responded to Royal Commission criticism with a ‘why not litigate?’ approach. Jassmyn Goh finds out what this means for advisers and how t...

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Editorial

The financial advice industry is facing yet another layer of bureaucracy as a result of the Government’s so-called Royal Commission Implementation Roadmap but the ultimat...

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