ASIC

Accounting

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from a liquidator at an Adelaide-based accounting firm after he failed to adequately investigate and document findings....

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Funds management

ASIC releases consultation paper to remake three class orders relating to underlying investments into a single instrument....

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Superannuation

Inconsistencies in the assumptions used by various superannuation calculators have the potential to damage consumer trust, Chant West reports....

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Superannuation

ASIC has disqualified a third person this week from being an approved self-managed super fund auditor....

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned former Equititrust CEO, Mark McIvor from providing financial services after he breached a law. ...

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Life/Risk

TAL Direct, trading as InsuranceLine, paid a $10,200 penalty for a false and misleading advertisement for its Income Protection Plus product ...

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Life/Risk

A new report on general insurance disclosure reveals a desire to steer clear of the personal advice regime and a push to get ASIC relief to do so. ...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has disqualified Abe Samuel from being approved as an SMSF auditor on the grounds of a breach in auditor independence requirements. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited after it found several breach incidents over recent years. ...

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Superannuation

Manoj Abichandani has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by ASIC after providing deliberately misleading statements....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....

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Financial planning

ISA claims ASIC’s fee disclosure requirement update leaves consumers in the dark on fees charged by ‘for-profit’ superannuation funds run by banks. ...

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Financial planning

Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....

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Superannuation

ASIC is investigating reports of property developers offering advisers commissions to encourage SMSFs to invest in their projects....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted EUs from three J.P. Morgan foreign financial services providers for failing to comply with disclosure requirements of ASIC’s exemptions....

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