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ASIC has succeeded in having the Federal Court overturn an AAT decision lifting a banning order on a Queensland planner....

Financial planning

FPA Confidential has resulted in 12 formal investigations since it was launched in February....

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Financial planning

The Government's election policy embrace of MySuper has gained qualified industry endorsement, with warnings to end union/industry fund dominance of default super....

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Financial planning

Dr Pamela Hanrahan has been confirmed as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) newly appointed regional commissioner for Queensland....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has established a Markets Disciplinary Panel that will deal with market breaches....

Financial planning

ASIC has moved against what it believes is a Ponzi scheme that extracted $16 million from investors....

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Financial planning

While many would agree the current educational requirements for entry into financial planning are inadequate, there is little common ground on how to resolve the issue, w...

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Financial planning

The Credit Ombudsman Service Limited has emerged as a competitor to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)....

Financial planning

ASIC has advised that issuers of structured products must better outline counterparty risk and the costs investors might encounter if they terminate or redeem a product b...

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Financial planning

Former high profile motivational speaker Christopher Koch was sentenced to 13 years and two months jail for obtaining around $2.9 million by deception....

Financial planning

Financial advisers and superannuation fund trustees can be exposed to legal risk from disgruntled fund members and clients if investment returns fail to reflect the perfo...

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman Tony D'Aloisio has defended the role of the regulator arguing it is neither resourced nor legislatively enabled to prevent losses or failures....

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Funds management

A Melbourne property promoter has been disqualified from managing corporations for five years following his involvement in 26 failed companies....

Financial planning

The proposal for a new education fund that utilises money collected from market breaches has received a good hearing from the Government, but everything is on hold pendin...

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Financial planning

ASIC has started proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court against two Newcastle companies for breaches of an enforceable undertaking....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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