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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced an undertaking from one promoter of wealth creation seminars and won a court case against another g...

Financial planning

A Tasmanian financial planner has become the first scalp in the corporate watchdog’s new super switching campaign, after not giving his clients statements of advice....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it will undertake another shadow-shopping exercise to ensure financial planners are not misselling in t...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers’ long quest to resolve its designation woes will come to fruition at the end of the month when advisers officially take on its new F...

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully appealed to the South Australian Supreme Court after the Magistrates Court failed to convict a forme...

Financial planning

A wealth creation scheme that claims to be able to generate returns of at least 2 per cent every trading day is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Invest...

Financial planning

It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...

Financial planning

The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...

Financial planning

Thanks to another administrative mishap, Tower Limited has been ordered by the corporate regulator to give $1 million back to customers whom it accidentally overcharged a...

Financial planning

Online broking firm E*Trade Australia has scotched rumours it will torpedo technology group IWL’s efforts to acquire rival broking firm JDV following reports in today’s m...

Financial planning

Hundreds of financial planning practices could incur huge fines or lose the right to operate their businesses if they fail to produce overdue 2004 annual accounts and aud...

Financial planning

Women are more inclined to seek professional advice than men when making investment decisions, while the latter rely more than females on newspapers and magazines accordi...

Rate the raters

The power of research houses is highlighted by the recent decision of UBS to no longer allow its funds to be rated by van Eyk, which it sees as a competitor....

Financial planning

A former South Australian options adviser and stockbroker was committed to stand trial in the Adelaide Magistrates Court late last week facing 52 forgery charges relating...

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission outgoing executive director of financial services regulation Ian Johnston has played down suggestions his departure is re...

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