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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....

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Accounting

CPA Australia Advice vows to remain indifferent to competition and to run its own race in the financial planning space....

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Accounting

Perpetual Private has entered into a partnership with a law firm aimed at helping accountants navigate the firm’s full licensing offer....

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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....

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Accounting

Most accountants have not started their licence application or made a decision on what SMSF licensing path to pursue, according to a survey....

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited after it found several breach incidents over recent years. ...

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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....

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Accounting

The low take-up of limited licences suggested accountants were not realising their advising rights were being snatched by legislation. ...

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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....

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Financial planning

ASIC banned former Provident Capital MD from managing corporations for five years and providing financial services for seven years....

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Accounting

Accountants could work as authorised representatives instead of getting their own AFSL as the licensing deadline of July 2016 approaches....

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Financial planning

ASIC warns retail investors against the risks of dealing with unlicensed binary options providers singling out Opteck.com in specific warning. ...

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Funds management

Former UBS managing director Colin Woods has launched his own funds management house, Pan-Tribal Asset Management. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC issues fraudster warning...

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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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