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Financial planning
The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....
Financial planning
Regulator claims Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) had “very poor” record keeping and lack of detail in its advice documents....
Financial planning
ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...
Financial planning
Commbank Wealth Management head, Annabel Spring says the group will remain focused on its existing strategy....
Accounting
A Melbourne accountant has been jailed for five years and eight months for operating 21 unregistered managed investment schemes relating to property development....
Top 100
Wide variations in the number of financial planners reported to be operating in the industry has been a feature of the sector for some years but, as Jason Spits writes, a...
Editorial
The financial services regulators have sent a clear message to the life/risk industry about its past mistakes. ...
Editorial
The Commonwealth Bank has delivered a solid full-year result with its financial planning troubles making little impact in terms of comments or provisioning....
Superannuation
Super portfolios are an “aggressive constant mix”, leaving investors in the pre- and post-retirement stages at risk....
Financial planning
Your Super Accountant has paid a $2040 infringement notice penalty in relation to potentially misleading statements about the cost of setting a self-managed superannuatio...
Financial planning
Esuperfund Pty Ltd has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices in relation to “false or misleading” online advertising....
Financial planning
Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....
Financial planning
Brisbane-based planning chief executive argues institutionally-aligned advisers need to question their roles....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....
Financial planning
A former Clinton Administration adviser will be part of the independent expert panel reviewing Commonwealth Bank’s Open Advice Review program....
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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,...