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Financial planning

van Eyk’s administrator has recommended winding up the research house, ahead of a meeting tomorrow to determine the company’s fate. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC warns that commissions may continue to exist within MIS arrangements despite the FOFA changes....

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....

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Editorial

Heidi Nash-Smith and Jack Geng explore the controversy surrounding the Financial Ombudsman Service and how ASIC can redress the power imbalance....

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Life/Risk

The corporate regulator is not seeking any changes to PI insurance requirements for advisers stating that ‘tinkering’ would not deal with problems related to claims or di...

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Financial planning

A South Australian finance broker has pleaded guilty to forging a memorandum of mortgage, to defraud $170,000 from an investor....

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Policy & Regulation

Opposition to consider reworked FOFA policy for next election as industry reports confirm need to oppose amendments....

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Superannuation

Corporate superannuation advice is caught between legislation and government inaction threatening the provision of advice....

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Financial planning

Banning upfront commissions on insurance products is not the answer to weeding out unscrupulous advisers, according to The Boutique Financial Planning Principals’ Group (...

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Financial planning

ASIC has secured a restraining order preventing a foreign exchange company and its former director from carrying on a financial services business....

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Life/Risk

A former insurance company director has pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to 39 charges brought by ASIC....

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Financial planning

An Australian financial services business has agreed to cease providing services in Japan after an inquiry by ASIC found it was not licenced by the Japanese regulator....

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Financial planning

BTFG moves unilaterally be introducing its own adviser register and providing scope for client feedback and assessment....

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Financial planning

More than 4000 customers of the CBA's planning businesses have registered for a review of the financial advice they received following the launch of the Open Advice Revie...

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Financial planning

Financial services group Spring FG says it will never be pursuing a dealer group model again after a “bitter experience” with a rogue licensee last year. ...

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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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