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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has welcomed early reporting of misconduct by financial services licensees and banned a former Genesys financial advi...

Financial planning

Australian permanent residents looking to transfer pension assets from the UK can receive the double benefit of new transfer laws passed overseas and new Australian super...

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Financial planning

One of Australia’s largest industry superannuation funds, Equipsuper, has argued that the Government should amend the sole purpose test applying to superannuation fund tr...

Financial planning

A Townsville financial adviser has been banned for two years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after being reported by his employer, RetireInvest....

Life/Risk

ASIC has permanently banned an ANZ bank representative and a former insurance broker after they were found to have misappropriated clients’ funds....

Financial planning

Westpac Financial Planning has embarked on a recruitment campaign involving advertising, education, an internal awareness program, and longer-term career path preparatio...

Financial planning

A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has found Australians in general still need to improve their levels of financial liter...

Financial planning

A Sydney financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for three years after failing to ensure his advice was appropriate to his client’s needs....

Financial planning

The Federal Court has found a former AMP financial adviser breached the law while providing superannuation switching advice....

Financial planning

A Brisbane financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for engaging in dishonest, misleading, and deceptive conduct....

Financial planning

In a solid endorsement of the financial planning profession, the Institute of Actuaries of Australia has expressed its opinion that consumers are best served by consultin...

Financial planning

Nucleus Financial Group has chosen Asia Pacific’s Bravura Solutions to provide the UK market with the technology for a new wrap....

Editorial

Information is power and in today’s complex and sophisticated business world our regulators are more often turning to the legislative search and access powers to collect ...

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

1 month ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 month ago

Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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