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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....
Accounting
CPA Australia Advice vows to remain indifferent to competition and to run its own race in the financial planning space....
Accounting
Perpetual Private has entered into a partnership with a law firm aimed at helping accountants navigate the firm’s full licensing offer....
Financial planning
An accounting firm and a financial planning firm have joined GPS Wealth ahead of the scrapping of the accountants’ exemption on 1 July....
Accounting
Most accountants have not started their licence application or made a decision on what SMSF licensing path to pursue, according to a survey....
Financial planning
ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited after it found several breach incidents over recent years. ...
Financial planning
Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....
Accounting
The low take-up of limited licences suggested accountants were not realising their advising rights were being snatched by legislation. ...
Financial planning
The most successful planning practices outsource services and processes that don’t fit with core tasks according to the head of dealer services provider AAP....
Financial planning
ASIC banned former Provident Capital MD from managing corporations for five years and providing financial services for seven years....
Accounting
Accountants could work as authorised representatives instead of getting their own AFSL as the licensing deadline of July 2016 approaches....
Financial planning
ASIC warns retail investors against the risks of dealing with unlicensed binary options providers singling out Opteck.com in specific warning. ...
Funds management
Former UBS managing director Colin Woods has launched his own funds management house, Pan-Tribal Asset Management. ...
Financial planning
Accountant, Mervyn Ross Tarrant, has failed to have a seven-year ban from providing financial services overturned by the Federal Court of Australia....
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