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Victims of the collapse of Storm Financial will not get a second chance to pursue ASIC over perceived failures to publicise concerns about the advice business....
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With the scrapping of the accountants’ exemption from 1 July this year, accountants need to make licensing decisions to continue advising on SMSFs, Malavika Santhebennur ...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has emerged with a win as the NSW Supreme Court awards $300,000 in damages to a senior executive who successfully pursued an advice-related defamati...
Policy & Regulation
ASIC will continue to focus on good culture in financial institutions but will find it a beast to regulate given it is a vague concept, a law firm says....
Financial planning
NAB’s remediation scheme must be fair and equitable, if it is to work to restore trust in the financial advice sector, Slater and Gordon believes....
Financial planning
Compensation specialists, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, are inviting investors to register their interest in joining a class action against IOOF....
Financial planning
A superannuation lawyer has decried calls for family trusts to pay full CGT, arguing all loopholes around this have now closed....
Financial planning
The banning of an experienced accountant for breaches of financial services legislation highlights the need for all professionals to be aware of the regulatory framework ...
Policy & Regulation
The Law Council of Australia has backed Government amendments which would exclude Australian private companies from tax transparency laws as alleviating an injustice....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants access to a penalty regime which can be scaled to fit the magnitude of crimes....
Policy & Regulation
The ATO has reaffirmed its ruling that the anti-avoidance rule for income tax did not apply to a personal services business paying a related employee super in excess of m...
Life/Risk
Predatory legal claims around TPD insurance should be rejected, with many jumping the gun and easily able to be defeated, according to a lawyer working in the insurance a...
Financial planning
A specialist financial services lawyer has questioned whether planners can be held negligent for not recommending SMSFs to super fund members with high account balances....
Financial planning
A change in attitude towards money and out-dated trust fund structures were acting as a lethal combination, leading to increased trust fund disputes....
Financial planning
Financial services lawyer, Peter Bobbin, warns that ASIC has neither the culture nor the expertise to handle a product intervention power....
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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...