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Financial planning

Dispute resolution specialist rejects claims by CBA that clients of Don Nguyen were not compensated because of lack of documentation ...

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Financial planning

The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....

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Financial planning

Industry Fund Services (IFS) has resolved compliance issues related to incorrect investment of client funds into an unregistered management investment scheme...

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Superannuation

ASIC grants relief to super fund’s advisory arm to reduce advisor exposure to personal liability....

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Superannuation

The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Victorian finance broker Kieu Thi-Thanh Huynh from carrying out credit activities after...

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Financial planning

The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....

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Financial planning

Sentry Financial Services to write to SMSF clients after ASIC surveillance of corporate authorised representative...

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Financial planning

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a trader employed at Westpac Institutional Bank for creating fictitious trading entries and a false...

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Financial planning

The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees are being warned that they will pay the price for poor product selection if they fail to ensure fund compliance under a n...

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Financial planning

An embarrassed ASIC has imposed license conditions on Comm FP and Financial Wisdom as short-comings in compensation arrangements are revealed....

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Financial planning

CBA says it has worked with customers to “put things right”, after the corporate regulator moved to address inconsistent compensation to customers of two CBA-owned planni...

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Financial planning

FPA uses Comm FP’s continuing troubles to restate case for separating product from advice....

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