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SPAA backs ASIC move to clarify wholesale investor test

From SMSF Association

The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) welcomes the decision by ASIC to clarify the working of the wholesale investor test and how it relates to SMSF professionals and trustees.

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12 Aug 2014

ASIC’s statement on wholesale and retail investors and SMSFs

From ASIC - Australian Securities & Investments Commission

ASIC has clarified how it will apply the wholesale investor test to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). This has been an area of ongoing legal uncertainty. The recent Senate Economics References

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11 Aug 2014

FPA supports national campaign to improve financial literacy

From FPA - Financial Planning Association

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has welcomed the National Financial Literacy Strategy 2014-17, launched last Friday by ASIC. The FPA is committed to ensuring that consumers have access to

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04 Aug 2014

Centrepoint announces conclusion of Professional Investment Services’ OMP after lifting the bar on advice

From Centrepoint Alliance Group

Services’ OMP after lifting the bar on advice Professional Investment Services has completed their Ongoing Monitoring Program (OMP) following ASIC’s recognition of the team’s significant improvement in the quality of

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29 Jul 2014

Why the future for vertical integration is horizontal

From Bruce Madden

Australians can thank Henry Ford for the experience of dealing with a financial adviser who operates under a brand owned by a bank, who recommends a product manufactured by that

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15 Jul 2014

ASIC releases report on regulating complex products

From ASIC - Australian Securities & Investments Commission

With financial products and markets continually growing in complexity, ASIC has reviewed its approach to regulating complex products. Last Friday ASIC has published Report 384 Regulating complex products (REP 384)

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14 Jul 2014

New regulation of financial advisers providing tax advice

From ASIC - Australian Securities & Investments Commission

From 1 July 2014, the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) regulates financial advisers who provide tax (financial) advice services under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (Cth) (TASA). Until now, financial

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04 Jul 2014

Senate report doesn’t go far enough to protect consumers

From FinaMetrica

Australian investors have inferior protection from poor investment advice compared to their peers around the world. That situation won’t change any time soon, despite the findings of a Senate report

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04 Jul 2014

Regulation of Australia’s financial system ‘needs overhauling’

From Erskinomics Consulting

The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) should seize the moment and recommend an overhaul of the regulation of Australia’s financial system, says Alex Erskine, managing director and founder of Erskinomics Consulting.

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03 Jul 2014

ASIC Senate Inquiry recommendations support FPA 10 point plan

From FPA - Financial Planning Association

FPA’s call for world’s best professional standards heard by the Australian Senate on behalf of all Australians Yesterday’s findings of the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into the performance of

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27 Jun 2014

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