AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Life/Risk

ASIC has banned a Sydney-based insurance broker from the industry for three years after he allegedly failed to pass on collected premiums to insurers. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC says bitcoins and other digital currencies are not financial products but that derivatives may evolve. ...

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Accounting

Financial advisers should require more than one semester unit in tax law if they want to be licensed to provide tax advice, the Institute of Public Accountants believes....

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Financial planning

The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....

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Financial planning

The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....

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Financial planning

The FPA has questioned the role of research houses, responsible managers and product issuers in the collapses of forestry managed investment schemes stating it had become...

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed conditions on the licence of Guardian Advice after finding advice that lacked a reasonable basis or lacked evidence it was given in the best interest of ...

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Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

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Accounting

The former director of an accountancy firm has been banned by ASIC for being part of a scheme which raised funds from clients for mezzanine finance and mortgage lending....

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Financial planning

A Sydney-sider who made investment recommendations to clients without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) has been banned from providing financial ser...

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Financial planning

Professionalism in the financial services industry remains some distance off and may need Government intervention....

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Financial planning

Emotional Intelligence is increasingly becoming a critical skill set for advisers, not just to improve client relationships, but to stay in business, Wayne Lear writes....

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Financial planning

ASIC has answered parliamentary questions about superannuation union liaison officers, the type of advice they can provide and whose AFSL they might be working under....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....

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Financial planning

A Victorian financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for seven years after an ASIC investigation found he had breached “numerous financial serv...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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