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Financial planning

A Queensland planner has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Brisbane District Court on 25 separate charges brought by the Commonwealth Director of Public Pros...

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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed restricted use of the term ‘independently-owned’ and ‘non-aligned’ in its updated Regulatory Guidance 175....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a former representative of Toowoomba-based Hart Ensole Pty Ltd....

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Life/Risk

The life insurance industry will be required to use uniform definitions following work by APRA and ASIC which found meaningful comparisons could not be made under current...

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Financial planning

Operators of ‘binary options trading boiler room’, Jana Jaros and Jackson Capper, have been convicted and sentenced....

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Policy & Regulation

The names of senior executives who have been sanctioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission should sit on a register for seven years, according to the...

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Policy & Regulation

A key Treasury-led taskforce is urging the Government to give the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the power to go beyond procedures such as enforceable u...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has cancelled one AFSL and suspended another as the firms failed to lodge financial statements and auditor’s reports....

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Financial planning

A former Commonwealth Financial Planning senior planner has pleaded guilty to one rolled-up charge alleging forgery....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned ASIC that the nature of its industry funding regime is such that the vast majority of good financial advisers is being ma...

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Funds management

ASIC has succeeded in its attempt to gain interim injunctions against Gallop International Group, Gallop Asset Management and Ming-Chien Wang in the Federal Court....

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Funds management

A former stockbroker from Perth has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for the dishonest use of clients’ funds....

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Financial planning

The Victims of Financial Fraud group has accused ASIC’s outgoing Greg Medcraft of a cover-up in relation to the Trio Capital scheme....

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Editorial

The cost of delivering financial advice has increased dramatically over the past 10 years largely owed to scandals and the belief of politicians that increased regulation...

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Funds management

ASIC has continued its work on the improvement of transparency and comparability of fees and costs for managed investment and superannuation funds....

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