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The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has claimed the uptake of its model product disclosure statements (PDS) has been high less than a month after its...

Financial planning

Jennifer Smith explains the ‘what was’ and ‘what will be’ of discussing risk with clients....

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released two model Product Disclosure Statements (PDS) to assist product issuers in developing disclosure doc...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have hit out at the possible increased regulatory powers of the Aust...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) today released its anticipated draft guidelines in relation to the product disclosure statements (PDSs) of soci...

Financial planning

ING Australia has announced changes to the investment options available on its low-cost OneAnswer platform to provide more choice and convenience to its advisers and inve...

Financial planning

The financial services sector has broadly welcomed today’s release by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) of a modelling template for fee disclosur...

Financial planning

The ANZ Banking Group will roll out its own version of ING’s OneAnswer to its 320 bank based financial advisers....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will call for a standardised fee disclosure template for financial products and services on Tuesday when it rel...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia will make a series of recommendations to industry regulators and the Federal Government on a standard level of disclo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to industry concerns about the need to regularly prepare supplementary product disclosure statem...

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 Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called for submissions from stakeholders on whether it should issue guidelines on the new socially respons...

Financial planning

Platforms have long been a key method to access a range of investments and as JASON SPITS reports, rather than being brought down by recent markets, they have continued t...

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