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Life/Risk
Suncorp has finished remediating its life and general insurance businesses after breaches that saw the insurer pay back $23 million to customers. ...
Financial planning
FOS chief obudsman, Shane Tregellis rejects calls for a limit to its monetary jurisdiction and claims those urging a more legalistic approach are ingoring recent changes....
Financial planning
The financial advisers’ register is missing key bits of information, defeating the purpose of the register to make information transparent to consumers....
Financial planning
ASIC has ordered NAB to tweak claims on its home loan rate advertisements, as part of its crackdown on false and misleading advertising. ...
Accounting
Accountants who provide advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) need to consider the level of advice they want to give clients before new licensing rules come...
Financial planning
Victims of Financial Fraud group lash Medcraft’s call for tougher penalties, citing regulator’s past failures....
Financial planning
The Government has rejected a Royal Commission into Commonwealth FP claiming the bank’s Open Advice Review Program should be allowed to work....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has set a date for the rollout of its public adviser registry, which licensees will fund via increased lodgement fees up to $44. ...
Funds management
AVCAL welcomed the Federal Government’s move to channel funds from the significant investor visa programme into venture capital and small business....
Life/Risk
Rice Warner says upfront life commissions can be justified where advisers have done the hard yards on initial advice....
Financial planning
ASIC has pointed to its remediation work with Macquarie Private Wealth as one of its steps towards the regulator “doing a better job”. ...
Funds management
ASIC has been told there needs to be greater clarity between what represents a ‘fee’ and a ‘cost’ in Product Disclosure Statements....
Financial planning
van Eyk’s creditors have voted to liquidate the company, as papers are drawn up for two potential buyers. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled the licence of Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services after the group entered into external administration earlier this year....
Financial planning
A Queensland adviser has been given a hold on a five-year ban from ASIC following a hearing at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....
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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,...