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Financial planning

Victorian planner ordered to pay back funds while Perth adviser faces fraud and stealing charges....

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Financial planning

Mortgage broking house Mortgage Choice forks out $30,000 in fines over false advertising....

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Financial planning

ASIC has released updated guidelines on its shorter Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) push, reminding superannuation providers to detail cooling-off periods and costs. ...

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Superannuation

SPAA warns that requiring financial planners to provide warnings on SMSF compensation is too simplistic. ...

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Superannuation

SPAA says absence of SMSF training standards in new RG146 is surprising, given regulator’s concerns....

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Superannuation

Industry bodies call into question Rice Warner research on costs of SMSFs....

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Superannuation

Financial planners are already subject to the best interests duty, so any additional requirements with respect to SMSF advice would be redundant, according to the FSC....

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft expresses concern at the time it takes to get matters before the courts....

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Superannuation

A Senator has asked ASIC to look into the potential conflict of interests in the establishment of a new media outlet fully financed by three industry super funds....

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Funds management

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft says pursuing compensation similar to Storm might better be left to the “class action industry”....

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Funds management

The fall-out from Trio/Astara and Opes Prime sees ASIC move to upgrade its approach to MIS custody....

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Superannuation

Warning self-managed super funds (SMSFs) that they are not entitled to compensation is too “simplistic” and needs to factor in all financial assistance available....

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Superannuation

Linda Elkins has been named Superannuation Executive of the Year in Money Management/Super Review’s Women in Financial Services Awards 2013. ...

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Financial planning

Planners within Peter Daly’s new Beacon Group are being encouraged to sign up to a defence trust under the auspices of AIOFP....

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Superannuation

SPAA CEO Andrea Slattery has shut down the notion that SMSF trustees should have a competency test, deeming it elitist....

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