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In a year in which few sectors of financial services have avoided the eagle eye of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and his counsels assisting, Hannah Wootton investigates what...
SMSF
A Sydney woman accused of dishonestly obtaining funds a client’s SMSF account and dealing with the prospects of crime has pleaded guilty, following an investigation by AS...
Financial planning
A former NAB adviser has pleaded guilty to two charges of submitting financial planning documents for his own personal gain....
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that serious questions are being asked about whether the Government’s proposed enhancements to the AFSL breach reporting regime will be worth the incre...
Features
The recent court decision against NSG Services Pty Ltd may not have clarified what constitutes ‘best interest’ but it highlighted the ‘reasonable steps’ an AFSL must take...
Features
Advisers might be keeping pace with technology, but are they on top of the regulation that goes with it? Hope William-Smith finds out....
Life/Risk
ASIC has once again called for the exemption removal of insurance claims handling from the Corporations Law after CommInsure was cleared of any wrongdoing as per the law....
Financial planning
ASIC’s review into how institutions dealt with non-compliant advisers highlighted the need for licensees/employers to follow FPA’s reference checking requirements, the FP...
Features
Being cyber resilient is not only about fulfilling a statutory obligation but also about preserving the integrity of a financial services firm, according to Holley Nether...
Financial planning
ASIC has banned a former Westpac financial adviser from providing financial services for eight years after finding cases of inappropriate advice provided to clients....
Funds management
Huntley Management has earned the ire of ASIC after using advertising material to claim the managed investment schemes for which it was the responsible entity were approv...
Financial planning
A former Illawong financial adviser has appeared in court on 19 charges of engaging in dishonest conduct with investor funds, including their self-managed superannuation ...
Financial planning
ASIC has banned former BTFG financial adviser, Michael Mahoney, from providing financial services for four years for misleading and deceptive conduct when providing insur...
Financial planning
A Victorian man has been imprisoned for illegally obtaining funds to develop property and for conducting a financial services business without a licence....
Financial planning
ASIC’s digital advice regulatory guidance has demonstrated that financial advice law is not technology-neutral, especially where laws were created with older platforms in...
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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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...