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Financial planning

The Financial Systems Inquiry interim report has acknowledged the funding issues encountered by ASIC and APRA....

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Financial planning

ASIC wants the financial services sector to take the lead in developing standards for the issuance of complex products....

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Editorial

Andy Schmulow argues that the controvesy surrounding ASIC and its handling of the Commonwealth Bank have seriously damaged the financial planning industry and left few pe...

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Editorial

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned former Victorian finance broker, Rudy Noel Frugtniet, from engaging in credit activities....

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Financial planning

The further Senate Commmittee process initiated by the Federal Opposition will simply be another in a long list starting in 2009....

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Financial planning

A Sydney woman employed by a company trading as Premium Financial and Retirement Solutions has pleaded guilty to four charges of fraud after an ASIC investigation....

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Policy & Regulation

Reports suggest the Labor Opposition will move to establish another Senate Committee inquiry into financial planning....

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Policy & Regulation

AIOFP has called on the Federal Government to reintroduce an ownership disclosure regime and for the equal prosecution of executives who have overseen poor advice....

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Financial planning

FOS releases consultation paper seeking input about raising limits at which it can hear disputes...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds risk falling foul of new legislation due to inconsistent fee and cost disclosure practices, an ASIC report reveals....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged the calling of a national summit to resolve the issues raised in the 61 recommendations of the Senate Committee report....

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Financial planning

ASIC has secured an interim order preventing Vault Market Pty Ltd and its director, MD Anamul Amin, from carrying on a financial services business without an Australian F...

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the licence of Finance Technology Securities (FTS) after concerns it was inappropriately recommending double gearing strategies....

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Financial planning

A number of CBA planners have declared their anger at comments made by the FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe....

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