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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to tell planners ‘what good looks like’ in its five-year corporate plan....

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Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds have been put on notice by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to shape up or be forcibly shipped out of the superannuatio...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched an independent prudential inquiry into governance and culture at the Commonwealth Bank....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

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Financial planning

Some miscreant financial planners may have left the planning industry and thus avoided prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but face actio...

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund trustees should not be subject to the same penalties that apply to directors of Managed Investment Schemes and should be allowed lee-way for ‘honest m...

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Features

Laura Sullivan and Grant Holley compile seven lessons that will ensure financial firms comply with financial services laws....

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Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

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Features

The Government has opted to go with a ‘one stop shop’ approach to financial services external dispute resolution, but there is the real prospect of higher costs being imp...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....

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Financial planning

Former FPA chief professionalism officer, Deen Sanders has been named as the inaugural head of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed that many advisers are still wondering why they have been entangled in the Tax Agent Service Act regime....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has laid bare the reality that professional indemnity insurance doesn’t adequately protect the interests of consumers...

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Financial planning

While advisers may want to switch platforms, a practice’s choice of platform relies on the relationship with the BDM....

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Financial planning

The manner in which the Future of Financial Advice changes crimped the revenue streams of the major licensees has been confirmed as helping drive the rise of managed acco...

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