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

Insignia Financial chief executive Scott Hartley believes the pressure of reactionary regulatory reform due to the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian master funds means the financial advice ...

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 ...

Former JBWere chief executive Maria Lykouras has been appointed as the successor to Judith Fox to lead the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association. Lykouras will commence from 1 December.

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, and has endorsed Senator Andrew Bragg’s call to split the ...

ASIC will review the retail distribution of private credit funds through advised channels next year as it releases a new surveillance report showing mixed practices from fund managers. The ...

ASX-listed Equity Trustees is hoping to rely on an obscure legal mechanism that saw victims of the Trio Capital fraud remediated back in the early 2010s via a government levy. The group, which is ...