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A financial planning practice within Charter Financial Planning has paid $10,200 penalty after ASIC found it made misleading representations in an article on its website....
Financial planning
The fall-out from NAB’s planning issues may be adoption of a recommendation for a compulsory planner reference-checking regime....
Accounting
A Gold Coast accountant will serve an eight month sentence by way of an intensive correction order, after pleading guilty to misleading ASIC....
Financial planning
Macquarie Group will compensate 80 clients, or around 13 per cent of cases reviewed in its client remediation work, but more may follow....
Financial planning
The ASIC adviser register is intended to be up and running on 31 March....
Accounting
Accountants remain confused about the process involved in the uptake of the limited licensing regime but they need to proceed quickly if they want to advise on SMSF, the ...
Financial planning
Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...
Financial planning
A Bundaberg-based building society has agreed to review its lending practices after ASIC raised concerns that it relied too heavily on information from a finance broker....
Superannuation
ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank makes clear that former CommFP clients retain access to its Open Advice Review program irrespective of changing advisers. ...
Financial planning
FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...
Accounting
ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...
Financial planning
ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....
Financial planning
The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....
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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...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...