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Requests for mercy to the corporate regulator from those who have broken Financial Services Reform laws are on the sharp decline, but the proportion let off the hook by t...
Financial planning
Despite recent criticism by the corporate regulator, financial planners have won a major concession that will allow them to recommend clients change super funds, even if ...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition has criticised the corporate regulator for not going far enough in what is already being perceived by the industry as too harsh an assessment of fi...
Financial planning
A financial adviser was banned, another had his operation shut down, and a superannuation scheme promoter jailed for 18 months as a result of three separate actions initi...
Financial planning
Product issuers no longer have to include general advice warnings in advertisements that provide generic financial advice, and planners may soon be relieved from having t...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator’s 12-page example SOA has been welcomed by the FPA, but criticised by the Federal Opposition for still being too long....
Financial planning
A former NAB authorised representative from the New South Wales Central Coast has been charged with eight counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, two coun...
Editorial
Fixed interest has an important place when building a diversified portfolio, and the recent rise in new high yielding investment vehicles, such as hybrids and structured ...
Financial planning
A “taken aback” chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Kerrie Kelly, has demanded the chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission take a...
Financial planning
An industry fund which claimed its members would be more than $200,000 better off than those in retail super funds has agreed to an enforceable undertaking after concerns...
Financial planning
Superannuation funds should be permitted to provide members with estimated projections of the future value of retirement savings in line with overseas practices, accordin...
Financial planning
A Toowoomba-based financial adviser who the Australian Securities and Investments Commission claims is unable to contain his dishonest and deceptive conduct has been give...
Financial planning
With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...
Financial planning
If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...