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Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...

Financial planning

First Foundation Developments and its senior employees will have $1.8 million assets frozen for running an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....

Superannuation

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) today called on the Federal Government to link the age at which consumers can access lump sum superannuation to eligibility for t...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned another financial adviser from the industry after involvement in a notorious Nigerian l...

Financial planning

A restricted definition for the terms ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ would protect consumers from shonky operators pretending to be financial planners, accor...

Financial planning

The findings of the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) report came as no great surprise to Money Management’s regular columnists....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Robert Huston Reynolds from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or an inv...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...

Editorial

There is a lot of interest at the moment in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - also known as Individually Managed Accounts - and their imminent coming of age....

Financial planning

Ex-AMP Financial Planning adviser Klinton Jay Lehman has been banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or of an investment adviser for four years by ...

Financial planning

Australian Planners Financial Services (APFS) will turn over $55 million this financial year through its nationwide network of 200 advisers in 90 member firms....

Financial planning

At the conclusion of last year Money Management ran a number of articles regarding the vexed issue of commission disclosure which were promptly met by a number of respons...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun the new year with a spate of actions against individual financial advisers....

Financial planning

The opportunity to take an equity stake is one of the most important features advisers look for when choosing a master trust or wrap. But could it leave the financial pla...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has handed out another sentence in relation to the Lifestyle Property Group, a failed property investment grou...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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