Despite ASIC’s action on Shield and First Guardian, lead generation services are still in operation and two separate ...

The regulator has revealed it is investigating other models similar to the Shield and First Guardian master funds. ASIC Commissioner Alan Kirkland told the Professional Planner Researcher Forum that ...

Financial advisers and their clients are increasingly demanding customised, bespoke investment solutions as scrutiny of the role of researchers and assets consultants ramps up in the wake of the ...

I appreciate Professional Planner‘s ongoing coverage of critical issues in the financial advice and investment research sector, including Generation Development Group CEO Grant Hackett’s recent ...

With just a month left before the education standard deadline, Parliament has passed a bill amending an error in the law that would’ve seen advisers who were relying on top-up courses to meet the ...

Morningstar will take note of how private credit funds are marketed and distributed as part of its rating methodology into the controversial sector. Morningstar director of manager research ratings ...

For business owners, having a succession plan – a plan B to cover the worst-case scenario – is essential for continuity. Templeton Advice Group was unfortunately struck with a poor run of luck that ...

Shadow Minister for Financial Services Pat Conaghan has called out ASIC for failing in its enforcement role on Shield and First Guardian, delivering the criticism just after a senior executive for the ...

Former UK pensions minister Guy Opperman says a “decumulation disaster” is looming for Australian superannuation fund members, but it could be averted through the use of hard defaults into retirement ...

ASIC is suing licensee InterPrac, self-licensed advice firm MWL Financial Services and researcher SQM for failures in the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian master funds. The corporate ...