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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) believes the results of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) most recent Shadow Shopping survey reflect ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts of interest principles do not go far enough to ensure compliant advice, according to Australian Securities and Investme...

Financial planning

Financial planners have received another bad rap from the corporate regulator, with its latest shadow shopping report concluding that close to one in five advisers gave u...

Financial planning

The Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (Sequal) has highlighted the difference between reverse mortgage products offered by its members and the fixe...

Financial planning

The operators of an illegal Gold Coast managed investment scheme have been issued with a temporary injunction by the Queensland Supreme Court stopping them from carrying ...

Financial planning

The Federal Court of Australia in Perth has granted an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and issued interim asset freezing orders agains...

Financial planning

Although financial planners think the Westpoint collapse can be blamed on a host of related parties, they are prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility....

Financial planning

The Wattle scheme that robbed nearly 3,000 Australians of $200 million has reappeared, with a lawyer in Britain making bogus claims that he has recovered some of the lost...

Financial planning

The sole director of Seabay Investments has personally guaranteed to repay a percentage of debts totalling around $18 million to 50 investors....

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a discussion paper it hopes will stimulate debate among its members and in the industry about how assumptio...

Financial planning

Two Victorian men who convinced their clients to roll their superannuation benefits into a self-managed super fund before pumping the money into their own petrol station ...

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association deputy chair Sarah Brennan and industry consultant Tom Collins have spoken openly about their involvement with Westpoint Corporation, as Br...

Financial planning

A Sydney man jailed for 18 months in December 2004 on contempt charges relating to early release superannuation has again been committed for sentence on six further charg...

Financial planning

The former Macquarie Bank staffer banned from practicing financial services last week for being late with disclosure documents had already been warned of his transgressio...

Superannuation

The Federal Opposition is calling for tougher regulation and clearer disclosure of SMSFs following the release of ATO figures on asset values and fees charged in SMSF acc...

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