ASIC

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants the power to dig through the managerial layers to ban the real culprits....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed soft dollar arrangements together with ‘profit sharing’ remain a factor for insurance within super mand...

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Financial planning

Ex-AMP Financial Planning adviser, Daniel Joseph Noonan has been permanently banned by ASIC after he misappropriated $2.5 million. ...

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Financial planning

Some miscreant financial planners may have left the planning industry and thus avoided prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission but face actio...

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Financial planning

The AFA has seriously questioned the value of ASIC’s oversight of codes of conduct, noting that the FOFA ‘opt-in’ code took years and is the only one in existence....

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Financial planning

Financial adviser, Travis Byron McLean, has been banned from providing financial services for five years after failing to comply with financial services laws. ...

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Editorial

The superannuation sector may be facing further consolidation in the wake of the further empowering of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Adam Gee writes....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....

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Superannuation

ASIC has disqualified an SMSF auditor after he audited the fund of a close family member and breached audit evidence requirements....

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Financial planning

A former mortgage broker from ALC Group has been sentenced to more than eight years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to deception....

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Financial planning

Many financial advisers are already using better statements of advice than the sample SOA being proposed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, accordin...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has laid bare the reality that professional indemnity insurance doesn’t adequately protect the interests of consumers...

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Financial planning

A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has placed the platform industry on notice around the new standards of fee transparency it will be enforcing....

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