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Financial planning

Select Asset Management CIO and Trio/Astarra whistle-blower, Dominic McCormick has written a scathing assessment of recent reports around IOOF and criticised the emerging...

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Life/Risk

Specialist lawyer, Ian McDermott warns that licensees may be left carrying the can on claw-backs if advisers change dealer groups mid-stream....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has made clear that bank executives will be just as exposed as union officials to the Government’s proposed super fund gove...

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Financial planning

With the financial services sector undergoing an unprecedented amount of regulatory change a financial services executive and lawyer has launched a firm to give SMEs lega...

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Policy & Regulation

An Auditor-General’s report has revealed that if you’ve received a CGT letter from the ATO, it may well be wide of the market and have missed your share dealings....

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Superannuation

The Government has released exposure draft legislation which would impose at least one third independent directors plus an independent chairman on industry fund boards....

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Financial planning

IOOF managing director, Chris Kelaher, says it's mischievous to link the allegations against IOOF to planners or financial advice....

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Funds management

IOOF has commissioned PWC to undertake an independent review of allegations relating to insider trading, front-running and breach reporting....

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Superannuation

A recent determination by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has revealed the ugly consequence of super funds investing in highly illiquid assets....

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Financial planning

IOOF seeks to rebuff newspaper allegations and points to ongoing legal disputation with a former employee....

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Superannuation

Industry fund body, AIST, tells Government strategies are utilising SMSFs, wraps and SMAs to indefinitely postpone the payment of CGT....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds want the regulators to tell them how they actually spent the millions of dollars in financial services supervisory levies....

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Life/Risk

ASIC signals that despite the industry’s position responding to Trowbridge, it is continuing to pursue enforcement over life/risk misconduct....

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator has a $50 million war chest that he’s ready to use against banks, planners and other miscreants....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC - today rocket scientists, tomorrow dark pools, Sunday black holes and next week boldly going where no regulator has gone before....

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