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ASIC new guidance for AFSL

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... of certain financial products disclose financial information when complying with the new shorter product disclosure statement (PDS) requirements. Under Regulatory Guide 170 Prospective financial information, issuers of standard margin lending facilities ...

Paraplanners master SoAs with COIN

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Financial planning software provider COIN has launched training courses for paraplanners, which could go some way to increasing the upskilling in the profession. The three-day courses, Paraplanning Fundamentals, are run in conjunction with outsourced ...

BT Wrap releases plain English investor guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
BT Wrap joins the campaign to make product disclosure statements much easier to understand through its new Investor Guide. Launched after six months of intensive customer research, the BT Wrap Investor Guide is part of BT Wrap's focus on innovation ...

Infocus planner banned by ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
ASIC has banned David Radovan, of Donnybrook, Western Australia, from providing financial services for five years after an ASIC investigation revealed concerns with the appropriateness of his advice to retail clients. The regulator found that Radovan ...

Structured prod issuers must disclose risks: ASIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
The regulator is recommending issuers of capital protected and other structured or derivative products to clearly explain any counterparty risk and the limitations of the strategies to retail investors. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission's ...

CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
The regulator has stepped up its monitoring of the contract for difference (CFD) market and proposed new measures to improve the market's transparency, following a study that found consumers are still confused about the risks when trading CFDs. The ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
Super fund members can look forward to an eight-page product disclosure statement (PDS) rather than 80, as new laws announced this week kick in. The new regulations are an important step forward to a new era in disclosure for fund members, said super ...

Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Macquarie Life Active includes different parts of a traditional policy under the one product, the product disclosure statement (PDS) is 68 pages long, 10 of which are medical definitions. Macquarie Life is also providing two versions of the PDS; one ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Almost a year on to the day Timbercorp fell, the future of the agribusiness industry remains on shaky ground - but proposed measures demanding agribusiness operators to open their books to the public, including how much debt they owe, could renew investor ...

BlackRock SMA tops $500m

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
BlackRock's Customised Portfolio Service has reached $500 million in FUA and launched 84 investment models across 34 product disclosure statements in under five years in operation. Scott Phillips, BlackRock's director and head of retail at BlackRock ...