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Financial planning

ASIC should be subject to regular reviews while FOS should move to a higher award regime...

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Financial planning

Senate Committee recommends higher education, professional association membership and enshrinement of ‘financial planner’ in report on ASIC performance...

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Financial planning

ASIC should be given the power to immediately suspend financial planners who it suspects have engaged in misconduct according to Senate Committee....

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing the performance of ASIC has recommended a royal commission into the Commonwealth Financial Planning debacle....

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Superannuation

ISA claims bank owned super funds ran campaign to remove ads but will continue with them after making changes required by ASIC ...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC, Treasury and the TPB have been urged to ensure the harmonisation of the standards applied to advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

Questions are being asked about Industry Super Australia’s integrity after its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign was labelled as potentially misleading by ASIC....

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Financial planning

Class action cases being taken against financial planning groups are being hailed as “a good thing” by ASIC chair, Greg Medcraft....

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Accounting

Accountants are not having the necessary conversations on what is going to happen to their ability to give advice on self-managed super funds (SMSF) after July 2016, an a...

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing the operations of ASIC is expected to table its final report today....

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Financial planning

Both Custom Wealth Solutions and Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services Pty Ltd have entered external administration. ...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has called on ASIC to conduct an audit of orphan commissions. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Service Inquiry is unlikely to drive deep changes to the financial services sector according to an analysis of the 270 submissions made to the inquiry....

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Financial planning

Super funds have received a deadline extension to 1 July 2015 for compliance with fee and cost disclosure requirements....

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released guidance for superannuation funds and their trustees on information disclosure on their websites in a...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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