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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is going to have to explain why it chose to describe a man convicted of dishonest conduct as a ‘financial adviser’ wh...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that it helped fund a consumer submission by two Griffith University academics to the Financial Adviser...

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Editorial

The standing aside of Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton, points to fundamental issues with respect to the regulator....

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Financial planning

Financial advice needed to focus on improving the value of advice, rather than focusing solely on the cost, according to a panel....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it wants to remove barriers to the use of scaled advice via a consultation process....

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Superannuation

Seven super funds have been classifying new members as ‘smokers’ by default and over 5,000 members will receive $3.6 million in compensation....

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Editorial

The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have welcomed the proposed reforms aimed at increasing the role of...

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Financial planning

Former director of Spectrum Wealth Advisers, Mark Schroeder, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following numerous compliance failures....

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry has been urged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to focus more on improving life insurance outcomes for its members....

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Financial planning

The quality of advice provided by retail funds and industry funds have been found to be similar, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

Intra-fund advice fees will be rolled up into administration fees and costs and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has foreshadowed moving on fees and c...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has foreshadowed court action in the wake of a review of fee disclosure statements and renewal notices which uncovere...

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Financial planning

Former Apogee adviser, Jihad Soleiman has been banned for six years for unqualified self-managed superannuation fund advice....

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Financial planning

It will be up to the Government to determine whether superannuation funds will be able to use member cross-subsidies to fund intra-fund advice, according to the Australia...

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