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Financial planning

Planning companies willing to acquire licences may be able to secure grandfathering arrangements. ...

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Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road Finance has been required to change the way it authorises the companies operating its branches in line with recent changes to the national credit licens...

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Financial planning

Confronted by a Senate Committee inquiry, ASIC has delivered a highly detailed enforcement report and pointed to the likelihood of FOFA uncovering legacy issues....

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Financial planning

When AFA chief Brad Fox asked Roadshow attendees in Sydney to put their hands up if they thought the financial advice industry was a profession, only 5-10 per cent of peo...

Financial planning

The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has raised concerns about the standard of record-keeping practices of a number of Australian credit licensees. ...

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Financial planning

UBS has paid $30,000 in relation to an infringement notice from the Markets Disciplinary Panel. ...

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Funds management

ASIC has sought court orders that LM First Mortgage Income Fund be wound-up after its collapse earlier this year....

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Superannuation

SPAA is urging SMSFs to get quality advice after the ATO announced it would increase its monitoring of the sector. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The ATO has set its agenda for targeting high net worths in 2013/14....

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Financial planning

An independent expert will monitor the way PIS gives financial advice for the next nine months to ensure the group meets the standards set out in the Enforceable Undertak...

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Financial planning

New international data confirms more than half the world’s security exchanges have been targeted by cyber attacks....

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Financial planning

A former Bell Potter Securities client adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services after he was convicted of offences involving dishonesty. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC signals it will look to the most senior levels when it detects a bad compliance culture....

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released final rules around over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trade reporting obligations for financial i...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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