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Dominic McCormick expresses some serious concerns in his opinion piece on a new investment fund....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that it may ramp up its surveillance of financial planning groups to coincide with tough new regulations o...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups in regional areas will face a stricter program of regulatory spot checks by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after th...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...

Financial planning

Advisers selling Term Allocated Pensions (TAPs) have been warned they may be putting themselves in the firing line of future litigation because of the higher commissions ...

Financial planning

Three agents of offshore internet currency exchange businesses have been shut down by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after they were found to be ill...

Financial planning

MacarthurCook Funds Management and WH Souls Pattinson and Company will commence accepting offers from investors this week and next ahead of scheduled public listings of f...

Financial planning

RetireInvest has rounded off this week’s flurry of activity surrounding its business with the announcement of a second exclusive advice deal, this time with the Commercia...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been sentenced to five years and three months jail after pleading guilty in the Victorian County Court to five counts of fraud relating ...

Financial planning

The relationship between product providers and research houses has appeared on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) radar with new anti-conflict ...

Financial planning

The RetireInvest dealer group has been given a clean bill of health by KPMG, removing the enforceable undertaking put in place in February last year by the Australian Sec...

Financial planning

Two operators of a Brisbane-based investment scheme have been sentenced to two of the biggest custodial sentences for defrauding investors in recent times after the pair ...

Financial planning

Telephone investment frauds are reaching epidemic proportions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission reporting a sharp rise in the number of complaints...

Financial planning

The founder of a Gold Coast-based firm responsible for running a series of wealth creation seminars has consented to orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland that preven...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...

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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 ...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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