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ASIC is not ‘out to get’ the advice industry or restructure it, preferring to work with the industry to help improve standards, according to ASIC commissioner and current...
Financial planning
ASIC has imposed a permanent ban on Perth-based financial adviser Paula Dollas-Ford after the regulator found she included client signatures on documents without authoris...
Financial planning
With the introduction of financial services reform, the ‘know your client’ obligation for financial planners is more critical than ever before....
Financial planning
Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has warned that some current reverse mortgage providers will fail in what he predicts will be a burgeoning market. His warning came ...
Financial planning
Instances of the mis-selling of superannuation products have prompted Shadow Financial Services Minister Senator Nick Sherry to call for simplification of the super choic...
Financial planning
A Brisbane man who acted as a commission agent for an investment scheme based on sunken treasure from shipwrecks has been convicted of operating a financial services busi...
Financial planning
In the debate that raged between industry and retail funds through the year, Industry Fund Services chair, Garry Weaven, was quite successful in keeping the argument’s fo...
Financial planning
ANZ and Victoria University have joined forces to provide financial literacy programs for residents in Melbourne’s western suburbs....
Financial planning
A former Queensland financial planner has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to six fraud charges brought by the Australian Securi...
Superannuation
ASIC is shutting down 11 Melbourne-based self-managed superannuation fund companies related to the PFS Group....
Financial planning
ASIC is again cracking down on Westpoint Group, filing an application in the Federal Court in Perth for the winding up and appointment of a provisional liquidator to a re...
Financial planning
ASIC has released a calculator for consumers to compare allocated pension products, and Chant West and SuperRatings expect to follow suit by developing extensions to thei...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...