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The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...
Editorial
When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...
Editorial
As the curtain comes down on the current Parliament, financial services players are left to wonder whether the Government should not have just stuck to the script reflect...
Financial planning
ASIC has reached a $1.1 million out of court settlement with BOQ, Senrac and Macquarie Bank in a high-profile Storm Financial case....
Financial planning
The principal of Levitt Robinson has said it is inappropriate for the corporate watchdog to launch an appeal against an $82.5 million settlement between former Storm Fina...
Financial planning
ASIC uses Macquarie’s Storm settlement to challenge premium handed to those who fund class actions....
Financial planning
The award of a premium to Storm Financial victims who bankrolled part of a class action against Macquarie Bank could encourage self-funded group litigation, a Brisbane si...
Financial planning
It may have been more than a year since the Industry Super Network (ISN) toned down its television advertising impacting financial planners, but they continue to suffer a...
Editorial
Legal experts Samantha Hills and Grant Holley dissect the best interests duty and the obligations that come with it....
Editorial
Dealer groups are not the only financial services companies being forced to adapt to the new FOFA environment, with Instreet Investment’s George Lucas explaining that fun...
Financial planning
Due to conflicts surrounding the link between product and advice, large parents of financial planning groups should use monitoring mechanisms to ensure the advice provide...
Financial planning
Storm investors who will receive the $82.5 million settlement from Macquarie Bank will have to acknowledge that the bank did nothing wrong....
Editorial
The last year has not been kind to the Australian margin lending market, with further declines in the number of active investors. But a potential rally in the equities ma...
Editorial
It would seem that in the mind of the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, accountants need to shoulder none of the responsibility for investors being burned by...
Editorial
While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....
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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....