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Financial planning

ASIC has called for companies to provide more clarity on remuneration arrangements for their directors and executives....

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Financial planning

Two financial advisers have been banned for life following separate investigations by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Life/Risk

Plan B has announced that its Plan B Insurance Brokers business will cease operations under its existing AFSL next month....

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Financial planning

ASIC has formed an Emerging Risk Committee specifically aimed at identifying risks to the Australian financial services system before they occur....

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Financial planning

A Sydney-based mortgage broker has received a $27,500 fine for advertising credit services it was not licensed to provide, according to the Australian Securities and Inve...

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Superannuation

The ICAA has backed a stronger regime of SMSF auditor registration as being more effective than a competency exam....

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Financial planning

Former Westpoint chief financial controller, Graeme Rundle, has been found guilty of lying to a bank to obtain more than $70 million for a Sydney property project, accord...

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Financial planning

A financial services firm that advised clients to switch their superannuation into a Trio Capital fund has had an enforceable undertaking (EU) imposed on it by the regula...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a class order to extend the transition period for the new shorter Product Disclosure Statement (P...

Financial planning

A Parliamentary committee has been told ASIC needs to consider the time and costs its demands impose on business....

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Policy & Regulation

Van Eyk has called for a requirement for the pay-for-ratings research model to be disclosed within the Government's FOFA reforms....

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Superannuation

Creating financially literate and better engaged Australian consumers is vital if the superannuation market and the wider financial services industry are to truly reach t...

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Funds management

With an increasing number of financial advisory groups offering some form of property advice either through in-house specialists or through a referral agreement, property...

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Financial planning

ASIC has been accused of creating a recipe for chaos when it comes to adviser applications for AFSLs....

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Financial planning

Former director of Australian Lending & Finance Corporation (ALFC) Moshe Mordechai has been permanently banned from providing credit and financial services after an Austr...

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