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The issue of ownership is back on the agenda after recent industry surveys but, as Jason Spits reports, the more things change, the more they stay the same....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has foreshadowed a greater focus on the needs of small dealer group after it announced a series of initiatives today aimed at sup...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has removed a West Australian planner from the industry for four years after he agreed to an enforceable under...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is conducting a surveillance campaign of tied advisers that could yield results as damning as a recent report ...

Financial planning

Lifespan Financial Planning has criticised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), claiming that its hard line on some compliance procedures may disa...

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

The vast majority of financial planners believe the recent release of a damning report into the quality of financial planning advice will have a harmful effect on the pub...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed an additional condition to the dealers’ licence of Lifespan Financial Planning following concerns ...

Financial planning

RetireInvest has given an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after an investigation by the regulator found the financi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued 13 interim stop orders as a result of its ongoing surveillance of the new product disclosure regime...

Financial planning

The big are getting bigger in the agribusiness sector, while smaller players are falling by the wayside, writes John Wilkinson....

Financial planning

A decision to ban former securities representative Jan Jungstedt for five years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been upheld by the Admi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) examination of financial planning groups named as having produced ‘very poor’ plans in the regulator’s recent...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has rebuffed calls by the Australian Consumers Association (ACA) for superannuation choice legislation to be delayed in the wake of the release of ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has continued with its crackdown on the financial planning industry, permanently banning two more people from ...

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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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