ASIC

Financial planning

A Government-appointed panel has backed giving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission greater powers to ban miscreant financial services executives, but no...

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Superannuation

Subscale super funds make up 30 per cent of modern award listings and the weakest performing fund returned 2.7 per cent over 10 years, according to the FSC....

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Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has affirmed ASIC’s licence cancellation for Mark Power and associated companies....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has disqualified New South Wales-based SMSF auditor, Kathleen Whittle....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission staff are likely to leave their public service salaries behind to embrace financial services market rates....

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Policy & Regulation

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission report has found that financial planning groups are mostly meeting their obligations with respect to professional inde...

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Superannuation

ASIC has outlined new requirements for the disclosure of fees and charges superannuation and managed investment funds....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

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Policy & Regulation

The big four banks have agreed to specific contractual changes with ASIC to eliminate unfair terms from their agreements....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that the pool of advisers at risk of churning life/risk policies is as few as 50 people....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s new cost recovery levy could reduce the services licensees offer if they cannot afford to pay multiple levies, according to The Fold Legal....

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Financial planning

Brisbane-based former financial planner, Neil Bruce has been banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is looking to crackdown on financial services licensees seeking to avoid their obligations by claiming personal advi...

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, Greg Medcraft has canvassed extending the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to other financial services industr...

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