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Serious questions asked about whether NAB appropriately filed breach reports relating to 37 planners with whom it parted company....

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Financial planning

Under pressure ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, has urged politicians to take action to change financial planning....

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Financial planning

ASIC has told a Senate committee it has asked NAB for detals of whistleblower complaints including the names of 37 terminated planners....

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Financial planning

ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....

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Financial planning

NAB Wealth counters media reports saying that where problems with its planning arm have been identified it has acted and compensated those affected. ...

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Financial planning

New analysis points to planning firms having no escape from an increasing compliance burden....

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Financial planning

The ASIC adviser register is intended to be up and running on 31 March....

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Financial planning

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

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Financial planning

Australia to act as Australasian arm of Deloitte’s chain of Cyber Intelligence Centres....

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

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Financial planning

Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....

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Superannuation

ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....

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Financial planning

ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....

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Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....

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Superannuation

AIST urges Government not to adopt Board of Taxation’s recommendations lifting the super payment threshold for low income workers to $1350 a quarter....

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