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The former Macquarie Bank staffer banned from practicing financial services last week for being late with disclosure documents had already been warned of his transgressio...
Financial planning
Leading financial services industry figures involved in discussions regarding disclosure at the ASIC Summer School have agreed disclosure practices must be plainer and ea...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator remains enthusiastic about creating additional model Statements of Advice (SOAs), despite only a “mutedly positive” response to the initiative fro...
Financial planning
Shadow shoppers seeking financial planning advice for ASIC’s current shadow shopping campaign are no longer at large....
Superannuation
The desire to spend now, repay later, has never been stronger in the Australian psyche. Credit card balances have never been higher and other forms of credit are at equal...
Financial planning
INGhas signed Xplan to enhance its online financial planning business support tool, Adviser Advantage, to add features that will allow advisers to more easily provide a s...
Financial planning
Alongside a ‘shadow shopper’ survey in February, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will continue to work on lifting the industry profile and working with the regul...
Financial planning
Just a few minutes ago, I finished speaking by phone with the son of a long-standing client. Our client’s son is 23 years of age and is in his first job, having completed...
Financial planning
New rules that could dramatically cut the paperwork burden for financial planers are a step closer after the Federal Government released regulations that aim to shorten t...
Financial planning
Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore has escaped criminal conviction, despite pleading guilty to not giving four of his clients Statements of Advice after he had hel...
Financial planning
Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore has escaped a criminal conviction, despite pleading guilty to not giving four of his clients Statements of Advice after he had h...
Financial planning
Industry groups have responded favourably to their possible involvement in the formulation of four additional example statements of advice ASIC intends to release in the ...
Financial planning
The usual ambition of a paraplanner is to become an adviser and Kate Cramsie is no exception....
Superannuation
Advisers are drowning in choice – that is, a growing choice of information and new research available to help them get the requisite levels of documentation they now requ...
Financial planning
Four national dealer groups have begun trials of a new risk platform, the first of its kind, which has been in development for three years....
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....