STORM FINANCIAL

Editorial

What can be done to stop the rot in financial services? Steve Browning discusses....

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Editorial

One cannot help but ask whether the proposed changes to the margin-lending landscape are being rushed through, writes David MacLeod....

Financial planning

The Federal Government has revealed the draft regulations that will make up its new margin lending regime, including an example PDS....

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Financial planning

A single national financial planning disciplinary committee should be established to replace the disparate committees of the industry associations, according to Anthony V...

Editorial

Amid the push to boost education standards in the financial planning industry, experience will still be central to protecting the interests of clients....

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Editorial

In light of the numerous inquiries into financial services as well as changing attitudes to adviser remuneration, SUE VISKOVIC considers the benefits of overhauling your ...

Editorial

Reading their submissions to the Ripoll inquiry, it's clear that not only do ASIC and Treasury hold very different views, but Treasury, in particular, has no desire to se...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank ramped up sales targets hoping to wring more and more business from Storm Financial, according to a FSU statement to the Parliamentary Inquiry into ...

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Financial planning

A member of the Ripoll Inquiry expresses concern that Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris will not be personally fronting committee hearings in Sydney this Friday....

Financial planning

It is not possible to prescribe the number of clients in a practice, according to Guardian Financial's Steve Browning....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has formerly rejected a claim in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that membersh...

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Editorial

Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...

Financial planning

New client suitability tests for margin lending may be only the beginning of such assessments for financial services products, a specialist lawyer has said....

Financial planning

ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....

Financial planning

Many clients didn't even know they were Storm clients, according to FIA chief executive Spiro Paule....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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