AFSL

Financial planning

Former Secuitor practice, Experience Wealth, has gone it alone with an AFSL aimed directly at Gen X and Y clients....

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited after it found several breach incidents over recent years. ...

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Financial planning

Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has cancelled insurance broker, Leedam’s AFSL a month after its sole director was banned from providing financial services....

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Accounting

Many accountants are sitting on the hands not knowing what to do ahead of the expiry of the Accountants’ Exemption, according to one AFSL holder....

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Funds management

Australian financial services licensee, Online Capital Markets, has paid $30,600 in penalties after receiving three infringement notices from ASIC for misleading online a...

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Financial planning

A wholesale service provider’s AFSL has been cancelled by ASIC at the business’s request, two months after the regulator suspended it....

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Life/Risk

Park Trent Properties Group has been found to have given unlawful advice to over 860 people to establish and switch funds into an SMSF....

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Accounting

With less than a year to go to the end of the accountants’ exemption, another advice group has started offering accounting practices an outsourced AFSL facility....

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Policy & Regulation

LSG Group’s AFSL has been cancelled by ASIC after it failed to comply with the conditions on its licence and financial services laws....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Western Australian insurance provider for breaches of various reporting, financial and other licensee obligations....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled Dunfo Capital’s AFSL after giving the firm six months to meet its legal obligations and licence conditions. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC received 970 AFSL applications during the January-June period, with nine licences suspended and a further 98 cancelled....

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Accounting

An Administrative Appeals Tribunal has cut two years off an accountants ban from financial services....

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Accounting

The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has urged its members to heed ASIC’s warnings about time running out to pursue the new limited licensing regime....

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