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Financial planning

THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have launched an investigation into AM Corporation’s...

Financial planning

There is a saying that old advisers never die, they just re-write their life insurance policies....

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has not ruled out the possibility of the combined National Australia/MLC group being required to pay further c...

Financial planning

Indy Singh has built a business based on vision and a fax. BARBARA MESSER spoke with him about his vision and the contents of the fax....

Financial planning

While property remains a favoured asset class, syndicates are once again in the spotlight. But, as JOHN WILKINSON writes, planners should continue to tread carefully in t...

Financial planning

Since February 2001 when the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it would conduct a review of solicitor’s mortgages schemes, ASIC has acted ...

Financial planning

IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser for life....

Editorial

MLC has announced that it will compensate investors in its superannuation products who suffered a loss in the value of their investment when they were transferred from si...

Financial planning

Australia is playing a leading role among 16 other countries associated with the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in developing an international standard fr...

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will begin a series of campaigns targeting commissions and disclosure in a three-pronged strategy as part of i...

Financial planning

Old Stan Pendergast had a stack of fibro down the back past the chook shed, and each time one of his seven children arrived, he picked up a few sheets and added another b...

Financial planning

THE former head of Australian Unity Funds Management, Craig Dunstan, is setting up his own boutique fund management operation in Melbourne....

Financial planning

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....

Financial planning

Independent, small planning businesses and dealer groups have asked for a clearer set of compliance processes under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), removing wha...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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