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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has worked looming conflict of interest legislation into its licensing regime by updating two of its licensing guides....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has had another win after successfully taking claims to the Supreme Court against the operator of a failed solicitor’...

Financial planning

Investors have been warned to be on guard against the promotion of illegal investment schemes after new figures suggested overseas scamsters had stepped up their activity...

Financial planning

MMC Asset Management has provided an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following an investigation into unsolicited of...

Financial planning

The Government’s proposed fee disclosure regulations have been defeated in the Senate, with the Australian Labor Party’s motion to disallow the draft rules passed with th...

Financial planning

The ongoing dispute between Morningstar and its former managing director, Graham Rich, has taken another twist, with Rich accusing the research group of making false and ...

Financial planning

Fund managers and product providers may still fail to meet the deadline for compliance with the new dollar disclosure regime despite the Australian Securities and Investm...

Financial planning

Financial planners who provide direct equity advice have failed in their bid to gain an exemption from having to provide a Statement of Advice (SOA) in time-critical situ...

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a South Australian insurance broker for a series of deceptions, which included collecti...

Financial planning

The average Statement of Advice prepared by financial planners is full of jargon and unnecessary information, but lacking in key disclosure elements, an investigation by ...

Financial planning

A father and son, who are under investigation for alleged involvement in a business that offered consumers illegal early access to their superannuation, were arrested on ...

Financial planning

The Federal election has thrown the January 1, 2005 deadline for fund managers and advisers having to disclose all fees and benefits as dollar amounts into disarray with ...

Financial planning

Three quarters of financial planning clients do not see a need for addition regulation, and while a surprising number actually read Statements of Advice, only 11 per cent...

Financial planning

So you thought platforms were a steady business? Not on your life. It has been a year of movers and shakers, writes Ross Kelly....

Financial planning

The man with a Midas touch for property investment owes much of his success to the harsh lessons of Estate Mortgage and keeping close to his customers, including financia...

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