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Financial planning

Former Fincorp Investments chair and chief executive Eric Krecichwost and finance director Jacob Lee Quigley charged with dishonestly using their positions to gain advant...

Editorial

Will the policy tide turn against commissions? Michael Mathieson considers the future prospects for remuneration in the industry....

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Financial planning

The former financial controller and director of the Westpoint Group, Graeme Rundle, has been charged under the NSW Crimes Act....

Editorial

The recent global financial crisis has thrown a great deal of attention back on the issue of risk management for businesses big and small. One of the key questions being ...

Editorial

There may be nothing illegal about the direct marketing tactics being employed by some financial services companies, but when the regulator starts dealing with the conseq...

Financial planning

New draft short-selling regulations represent a "sensible and workable" outcome: IFSA....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has acted to tighten up on the direct marketing of insurance products, warning a marketing services company that its telephone sales risked misleading consumers....

Financial planning

Australia Post is running a 'lifestyle survey' that canvasses consumers' use of investment products, including margin loans and reverse mortgages, and then provides leads...

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Financial planning

The founders of collapsed advisory group Storm Financial are expected to give evidence today in a hearing in the Federal Court in Brisbane....

Editorial

PIS took a reputational hit when ASIC announced it had reached a settlement on matters relating to a class action tied to the collapse of Westpoint....

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Editorial

One cannot help but ask whether the proposed changes to the margin-lending landscape are being rushed through, writes David MacLeod....

Financial planning

ASIC has refined the arrangements around naked short selling....

Financial planning

South Australia dealer group Financial Planning & Life has gone into voluntary liquidation, partly as a result of a fraud perpetrated by one of its authorised representat...

Financial planning

A single national financial planning disciplinary committee should be established to replace the disparate committees of the industry associations, according to Anthony V...

Financial planning

ASIC pursues action against Pacific Blue Securities and obtains freezing orders....

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