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Financial planning
A financial planner has backed ASIC’s call to instil financial literacy into the school education system, saying literacy is lacking in adults too....
Financial planning
ASIC’s proposal to include financial literacy in the education system is a good one but financial literacy has to start at home from the parents, a personal loan speciali...
Financial planning
The Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Section has urged against extending ASIC’s powers to encompass product intervention....
Financial planning
Financial institutions should be prohibited from providing any form of adviser education to avoid perpetuating current business models which have promoted sales over advi...
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Global Derivative Services after it failed to comply with licence obligations...
Financial planning
ASIC has confirmed it has tightened its approach on enforceable undertakings in the wake of those applying to Commonwealth Financial Planning and Macaquarie Private Wealt...
Financial planning
The chairman of ASIC has defended his international travel expenses as a regulatory priority. ...
Financial planning
A proposal to rename general advice as “sales” or “product information” is not an adequate solution to the problems that arise from conflicted remuneration, according to ...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator is driving home the financial literacy mantra, saying it should be part of formal education from a young age for consumers...
Editorial
While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...
Financial planning
The founder and director of the responsible entity for two MISs which were wound up owing around $200 million is fined $10,000 for failing to assist the liquidators....
Financial planning
Proposals to introduce a ‘restricted advice’ label would help to bring transparency to the financial advice consumers Infocus managing director Rod Bristow believes....
Funds management
Uncertainty lingers around OTC derivatives reporting for financial entities with less than $50 billion outstanding, a law firm partner believes....
Financial planning
FinTech startups could disrupt the regulatory order, a lawyer warns, with systemic tweaks needed to align regulation with the new, virtual environment. ...
Superannuation
A senior Liberal Senator has asked ASIC whether union-based superannuation liaison officers are providing advice....
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...