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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is proposing to increase the value limit of products in employee share schemes that can be offered in a 12-month period from $5,000 to $10,000 per ...

Features

Regtech, artificial intelligence, on-demand online education services, and pre-emptive risk detection are the ways of the future for the financial advice industry to tack...

Features

It is time for planners to bring aged care advice into sharper focus and initiate conversations with their clients around cost, structures, and implications for other are...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that the creation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has brought the financial planning industry to another crossroad on its journ...

Policy & Regulation

None of the Government’s recently-introduced legislative reforms, including those around the Life Insurance Framework, have adequately addressed the problems created by v...

News

Small and medium business confidence had surged to the highest level since early 2010 with an eight point rise on a net basis....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 5 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks 1 day ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

2 days 18 hours ago