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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed it has tightened its approach on enforceable undertakings in the wake of those applying to Commonwealth Financial Planning and Macaquarie Private Wealt...

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Financial planning

The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...

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Financial planning

The Chief Ombudsman has sought to refute claims that FOS is unaccountable and in urgent need of review....

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Financial planning

Allegations of “unsound and unreasonable” findings by the Financial Ombudsman Service are behind calls for an “urgent review” of the service....

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Financial planning

The further Senate Commmittee process initiated by the Federal Opposition will simply be another in a long list starting in 2009....

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Editorial

The Government may have moved to “rebalance” FOFA, but bipartisanship remains a forlorn hope....

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Editorial

The Government may have moved to “rebalance” FOFA, but bipartisanship remains a forlorn hope....

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA is not surprised by the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the FOFA amendments but wants the line held on product advice....

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Policy & Regulation

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s performance is likely to make recommendations based on how past failures were owed to a lack of intelligence and necessary skills....

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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it is reviewing the latest industry funds advertising campaign....

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Financial planning

Allowing advisers and clients to 'agree’ on the scope of advice makes way for a variety of manipulation, says AIST....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) says that contrary to recent reports, general advice amendments have no bearing on the activities of financial advisers. ...

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Editorial

As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...

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Editorial

Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...

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Editorial

Throughout 2013, ASIC executives repeatedly used AAA Financial Intelligence as an example of how not to run a financial planning dealer group....

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