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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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Superannuation

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) service provider Heffron has launched an online SMSF form with in-built checking tools to avoid compliance headaches....

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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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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

A $200 million class action could be brought against the Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom on behalf of thousands of investors who claim they lost money due to “ba...

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Superannuation

The Department of Employment has acknowledged that no provision has been made for communicating default fund outcomes to employers....

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Financial planning

The AFP and ASIC have charged an ABS public servant and a NAB employee with insider trading netting $7 million....

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Accounting

IPA welcomes Board of Tax discussion paper canvassing key changes to Division 7A of the Tax Act....

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Superannuation

The FSC has fulfilled its threat to take the FWC to court challenging the constitution of its expert panel in the default super process....

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Financial planning

As Commonwealth FP again finds itself in the media spotlight, the FPA has defended the manner in which it has handled members who broke bad....

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Financial planning

The ATO has issued a public ruling which it claims removes any doubt about dividend washing being out of bounds....

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Funds management

The FSC has sought to scotch industry super claims that banks are offering incentives to employers on the selection of default funds....

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