ASIC

Financial planning

A former Aussie mortgage broker is facing a potential jail sentence over allegations she falsified loan applications totalling $2.7 million....

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Financial planning

Eighteen months after it began its Wealth Management Project, ASIC confirms it is maintaining its surveillance of planners....

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Financial planning

A purpose-built, client focused package could signal major turning point for the international and Australian industry, says CEO Nic Pollock. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) is refunding $5 million to basic account holders for incorrect late payment and over limit fees. ...

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Superannuation

CMH Financial Group is under an enforceable undertaking after ASIC found the firm to be giving SMSF advice that was not in their clients’ best interest....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given the green light to businesses to provide customers with information in digital form....

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Outsider

Everyone should be allowed a victory lap, even the chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Greg Medcraft. ...

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Editorial

ASIC has signalled it will be closely examining the claims-handling of the major life/risk insurers, but Mike Taylor asks whether the regulator is simply the policeman wh...

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Financial planning

Lewis Anthony Wright Fellowes allegedly obtained money from his clients’ margin loan accounts and used the money for his own use....

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Financial planning

ASIC has released a consultation paper on guidance for robo-advice providers, highlighting that licensees should appoint human advisers to monitor and test digital advice...

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Superannuation

A Melbourne publisher's superannuation scare campaign has ended in a $21,600 ASIC penalty. ...

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Life/Risk

ASIC has accepted an EU from Barakah Properties following concerns on how it raised funds to build an Islamic School in Melbourne. ...

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Funds management

ASIC is seeking Federal Court of Australia approval to restrain Whitebox Trading and its principal from financial services following an investigation....

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Life/Risk

ANZ’s OnePath subsidiary is set to pay $4.5 million in compensation over breaches relating to its life, general insurance, superannuation and funds management activities....

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Features

Amid the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of alleged problems within CommInsure’s claims handling procedures, something important was overlooked — a number of major...

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