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Financial planning

Adviser Ratings has explored whether there is a financial benefit to advice firms seeking to have a specialised client base in terms of client assets and fees charged....

Financial planning

Financial services class actions are firmly back on the agenda after a ‘brief reprieve’ in recent years, reporting a 69 per cent rise in 2023, with crypto and ESG matters...

Financial planning

A former Ord Minnett financial adviser, who is being sued by the firm, has been temporarily banned from contacting her former clients after it was found 17 clients moved ...

Policy & Regulation

The Senate economics reference committee has shared data from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on the number of prosecutions referred to it by ASIC in the...

Expert Analysis

With the recent spate of data breaches now extending to the financial services industry, AFSLs are racing to ensure that their information management procedures are up to...

Policy & Regulation

Not only is there the Quality of Advice Review taking place this year, a legal review into financial services legislation has also been on the agenda....

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Policy & Regulation

With two days left to submit responses to the ALRC Review, the Corporations Act has been likened to a “disordered share house” that requires re-design and a deep clean. ...

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Financial planning

Lawyers have recommended proposed scenarios under the Quality of Advice Review be stress-tested pre-implementation to ascertain possible adverse consumer outcomes. ...

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Features

There is a raft of compliance obligations coming into place over the next few months and advisers need to ensure they have all their ducks in a row to avoid any breaches,...

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Life/Risk

A law firm has raised the prospect of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission using its new Product Intervention Power with respect to insurance adviser remu...

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Life/Risk

Allowing life insurers to fund mental health treatment is not the solution to Australia’s mental health crisis, according to law firm Slater & Gordon....

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Financial planning

The Court of Criminal Appeals has dismissed Gabriel Nakhl’s appeal against a 10-year sentence for misuse of client funds....

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Expert Analysis

An unpresented case could allow APRA to amend the existing risk management prudential standard to require super trustees to consider climate change as a material risk to ...

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Policy & Regulation

Melbourne-based lawyer, Dan Mackay, argues that AMP is on far from firm legal ground in its approach to advisers and Buyer of Last Resort....

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Financial planning

Most firms impose contractual conditions on departing executives. CountPlus acted on them in taking legal action against a number of departing practice principals and ext...

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