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Suncorp reports itself to ASIC and accepts life and general insurance compliance upgrade. ...

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Financial planning

An audit report confirms that getting a review of adverse debt relief from the ATO is possible, but only if you read the fine print....

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Financial planning

An Auditor-General’s report is unlikely to dampen financial services industry grumbling about how AUSTRAC is funded....

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Financial planning

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

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Funds management

As part of its ongoing review of the sector, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released updated regulatory guidance for operators of registe...

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Accounting

CPA and ICAA argue against any delay to TASA implementation, claiming it will generate consumer uncertainty....

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Accounting

Count Financial welcomes Parliamentary progress of limited licensing arrangements for accountants....

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Financial planning

FPA points to lack of regulatory information as reason for planner unpreparedness for FOFA. ...

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Financial planning

The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....

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Financial planning

Clients with mainly cash holdings not enough to sway ASIC on planner PI requirements....

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Funds management

Investors give fund managers thumbs-up for costs, but look for greater disclosure at fund level. ...

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Money Choice director Matthew George had his PIPA membership suspended days after the regulator banned him from the industry and cancelled his firm’s credit licence....

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Financial planning

The ACCC is conducting a public review into the proposed merger between Perpetual and The Trust Company....

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Financial planning

Providing unlicensed SMSF advice was one of the reasons Money Choice had its licence cancelled and its director banned by ASIC....

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Financial planning

The case against Westpoint Group directors Norman Carey and Graeme Rundle has officially been dropped by the District Court of Western Australia. ...

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