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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has banned Spectrum Wealth Advisers’ Gurumukh Singh Mehra from providing financial services for three years after surveillance showed he failed to act in hi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided legislative relief that will allow exchange-traded fund market makers to make named short sales in ETF a...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned former NAB branch manager, Mathew Alwan....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged the mandating of a minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds and a ban on limited recourse borr...

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Policy & Regulation

The Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission have each entered agreements with ASIC to cooperate and und...

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Life/Risk

ClearView has told the Royal Commission it has no intention of returning to direct life/risk insurance and will remain focused on the advised market....

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Policy & Regulation

The interim report and the Royal Commission's hearings clearly show that some financial institutions have fallen far short of treating Australians honestly and fairly, ac...

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Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has slammed the industry regulators for failing to sufficiently punish...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial services licensees rather than individual planners are facing the most change likely to result from the preliminary findings of the Royal Commission into Miscon...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

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Policy & Regulation

A review by the regulator has described delays by financial institutions in reporting, addressing and remediating significant breaches as “unacceptable”....

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Life/Risk

Industry superannuation fund REST has filed a breach report with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after admitting to failings during the Royal Commiss...

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Expert Analysis

Arian Neiron breaks down the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s recent report on exchange-traded products, exploring why the regulator warned of wide spre...

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Outsider

And as the sun slowly fades into the west ... Outsider notes the impending departure of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chairman, Peter Kell....

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Policy & Regulation

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has set aside a decision by the regulator to ban Perth adviser Robert Hutchison from providing any financial services....

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