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Financial planning

The FPA has questioned the role of research houses, responsible managers and product issuers in the collapses of forestry managed investment schemes stating it had become...

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed conditions on the licence of Guardian Advice after finding advice that lacked a reasonable basis or lacked evidence it was given in the best interest of ...

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Superannuation

ASIC cancelled the AFSL of Coal Industry Superannuation Fund after its merger with AUSCOAL Super last year....

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Financial planning

Two Melbourne men and one of their partners have been charged with conspiring to defraud financial institutions of approximately $110 million, following an ASIC investiga...

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Financial planning

ASIC moves to extend the class order relief currently underpinning general advice....

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Financial planning

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....

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Funds management

ASIC plans to probe the mortgage lending standards of the Big Four, particularly honing in on interest-only loans. ...

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Financial planning

A broker will refund $477,900 to 2000 consumers after the corporate regulator found it had charged consumers a brokerage fee when it was not allowed to....

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Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

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Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

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Financial planning

The FSI final recommendations seek to place greater onus on product manufacturers....

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Financial planning

Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....

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Financial planning

ISA has fired a last shot across the bows of retail financial advice before the release of the FSI report calling for the “conflict-ridden, vertically integrated business...

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft admits he's fired up and heartbroken over bad financial planners. ...

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