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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft admits ambiguity led to CommFP client compensation failures, but claims the bank was not “upfront”....

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Superannuation

APRA has admitted it doesn’t monitor the expenses of superannuation fund executives or trustees....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the board of the Commonwealth Bank must be wondering how it was possible for the controversy around Commonwealth Financial Planning to get worse....

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Financial planning

Penalties for financial planners who breach the law are not severe enough, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission believes....

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People & Products

Former MLC chief executive Steve Tucker will head up a new funds management firm, slightly more than a year after his departure from the NAB-owned business. ...

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Financial planning

Banks are being warned against high risk lending by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), as house prices continue to grow in many markets across the cou...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed AMP group executive insurance and superannuation Pauline Blight-Johnston to its board....

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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

The Institute of Managed Account Providers will be telling planners about their options in a national roadshow starting in June. ...

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Financial planning

Former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets, Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to seven charges last yea...

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Financial planning

Newspaper reports are speculating that the Government will sell off ASIC’s company registry business. ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

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Financial planning

Lawyer points to possible action against planners and accountants as Timbercorp class action fails....

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Funds management

Equity Trustees purchase of the trustee division of ANZ Bank to be funded by equity raising....

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Financial planning

The founders of Bridges Financial Services are looking to float their managed discretionary account business, managedaccounts.com.au...

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