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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against a mortgage broker for his conduct in applying for two lo-doc loans for one of ...

Financial planning

The FPA has advised that its investigation into the activities of Tasmanian-based adviser Brendan Moore has been wrapped up, with its disciplinary committee imposing only...

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Financial planning

In response to industry confusion, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has clarified that authorised representatives do need to identify their Australian...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has called for changes to be made to the Financial Services Reform Act to ease the burden of compliance on financial planners and make ...

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Financial planning

Members of the Financial Planning Association will be expected to separately disclose the cost of advice from the cost of an investment product to their clients from Janu...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has issued new prudential standards governing the issue of outsourcing that are applicable to life insurance companies, aut...

Financial planning

Westpac Financial Planning has now completed the implementation of its advisory administrative tool known as the Leading Edge Advice Platform....

Financial planning

Pax Financial Group will now operate as part of the Tandem Financial Advice dealer group after relinquishing its own Australian Financial Services Licence....

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ING and self-managed super fund service provider Super Concepts have introduced a new instrument called One2super to help financial advisers provide better services to th...

Financial planning

ING Financial Planning and ING’s largest dealer group, RetireInvest, will be combining their back-office operations from January, next year....

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