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Constant flip flopping of FOFA laws have left advisers in limbo over what regulations constitute as law, Holly Nethercote believes....
Financial planning
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
Financial planning
Accountant, Mervyn Ross Tarrant, has failed to have a seven-year ban from providing financial services overturned by the Federal Court of Australia....
Financial planning
Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...
Financial planning
The chairman of Australia’s corporate regulator and his staff spent $45,000 in the second half of last year on international business travel, more than 80 per cent of whi...
Financial planning
A Bundaberg-based building society has agreed to review its lending practices after ASIC raised concerns that it relied too heavily on information from a finance broker....
Financial planning
Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....
Superannuation
ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....
Life/Risk
QBE will ensure all future communications relating to escalated complaints and dispute resolution will have the company’s branding rather than an external legal firm’s, u...
Financial planning
ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....
Life/Risk
ASIC has banned a Sydney-based insurance broker from the industry for three years after he allegedly failed to pass on collected premiums to insurers. ...
Financial planning
The political wrangling around financial advice reforms have passed over the heads of most consumers who have yet to be convinced of their relevance according to Adviser ...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank makes clear that former CommFP clients retain access to its Open Advice Review program irrespective of changing advisers. ...
Financial planning
Research undertaken by ASIC points to institutionally-aligned planners having the most "passive" clients. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has approved nearly 500 applications for relief from provisions of federal legislation during the past September quarter. ...
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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,...