FINANCIAL SERVICES BUSINESS

Financial planning

AMP has reported a profit decline but believes its merger with AXA is on track to deliver efficiencies....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained Supreme Court orders against an unlicensed financial planning business found to have defrauded 36...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained Supreme Court orders against an unlicensed financial planning business found to have defrauded 36...

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Accounting

An ASIC investigation has seen a Melbourne accountant facing 37 charges over unregistered managed investment schemes....

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Financial planning

ASIC has used its submission to the PJC to point to the difficulty of dealing with miscreant financial planners who appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ma...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian Financial Services Licence of Melbourne-based practice FP Investment Partners....

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Financial planning

Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has reached $1 billion in funds under advice, a two-fold increase over the past year....

Financial planning

A Sydney director has been banned permanently by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for operating a financial services business without an Austra...

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Life/Risk

Plan B has announced that its Plan B Insurance Brokers business will cease operations under its existing AFSL next month....

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Financial planning

A Sydney-based derivatives dealer has been banned from providing financial services following an investigation into allegations of misleading conduct and conducting busin...

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Financial planning

Two people have been banned from providing financial services for five and three years respectively, following separate investigations by the Australian Securities and In...

Superannuation

The Federal Government’s Future of Financial Advice reforms have banned all risk commissions in super and volume rebates at the same time as imposing a two-year opt-in on...

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Financial planning

Former director of Chartwell Enterprises and one of Australia's largest Ponzi scheme operators, Graeme Hoy, has been sentenced to 13 years and nine months in jail owing i...

Life/Risk

A former travelling insurance agent has been banned for life from providing financial services and sentenced to seven months in jail after defrauding several of his clien...

Financial planning

Another Chartwell director faces jail after pleading guilty to 47 charges involving $21 million....

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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...

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

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