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Financial planning

Advisers who joined the newly merged Financial Advice Association of Australia have risen 30 per cent from initially reported figures and now surpass 10,000 after it repo...

Financial planning

ASIC has indicated its disappointment that “little improvement” has been made on the reportable situation regime but financial advice breaches have declined over the year...

Financial planning

A global advisory firm has been ordered by the Federal Court to freeze its funds and assets for failing to lodge financial statements....

Financial planning

Appearing at Senate estimates, ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court has claimed the $7.2 million penalty issued to Dixon Advisory was made to send a “deterrent message” as the f...

People & Products

The former tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who disclosed confidential information has been formally banned for eight years from providing financial services by ASIC...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has taken ‘ASX Wolf’ Tyson Scholz to the Federal Court with a creditor’s petition after he failed to pay more than $450,000 owed to ASIC. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has updated its reportable situations regime to remove the need for licensees to submit breach notifications for certain misleading or deceptive conduct breaches....

Funds management

The government has opened a consultation to increase regulation for digital asset and crypto platforms via holding an AFSL, including for those who give advice or promote...

Financial planning

ASIC’s annual report has detailed its enforcement progress achieved during FY2022-23 and where it is focusing its financial advice work going forward....

Financial planning

The conviction rate for cases referred by ASIC to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has fallen to half compared to 100 per cent in the year prior....

Superannuation

The corporate regulator’s crackdown on SMSF auditor misconduct continued in the third quarter, with ASIC taking action against 11 auditors who were all referred by the Au...

Financial planning

Court documents have revealed how former Melbourne adviser, Terence Nugara, was able to steal $10 million from his clients by promising returns as high as 98 per cent fro...

Financial planning

A Queensland financial adviser has detailed how the latest ASIC levy increase has caused him to double the ongoing advice fee for his clients to meet the cost....

Financial planning

The last three months have seen at least three high-profile court cases involving adviser misconduct, keeping the corporate regulator on its toes to wrap up a busy quarte...

Policy & Regulation

The Senate economics reference committee has shared data from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on the number of prosecutions referred to it by ASIC in the...

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