ASIC

Funds management

The assets of three investment companies have been frozen, following an investigation by ASIC surrounding the improper disclosure of publicly solicited funds....

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Funds management

ASIC has consulted on addressing ‘sunsetting’ class orders on horse racing syndicates and horse breeding schemes....

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Policy & Regulation

ANZ will pay approximately $13 million in compensation after failing to accurately apply bonus interest to customers’ Progress Saver Accounts for a number of years. ...

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Life/Risk

A Melbourne-based property developer will spend a minimum of three years behind bars for his role in misappropriating more than $750,000 of investors’ funds....

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Policy & Regulation

GE Money has changed its promotion of personal loans and debt consolidation loans after ASIC found it to be potentially misleading....

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Financial planning

A former Perth-based financial adviser has been permanently banned from the financial services industry over her conduct in advising SMSF clients....

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Financial planning

Product intervention powers are a step in the right direction for ASIC in dealing with complex financial products, the regulator believes....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator supports robo-advice but also acknowledges problems such as meeting best interests duty and compensating for bad advice....

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Superannuation

The Federal Court has imposed a $25,000 penalty on Superannuation Warehouse Australia following ASIC action over false and misleading advertising....

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Funds management

Australian financial services licensee, Online Capital Markets, has paid $30,600 in penalties after receiving three infringement notices from ASIC for misleading online a...

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Life/Risk

ASIC has criticised the funeral insurance market, saying funeral insurance premiums continue to rise steeply for the over-50s, resulting in many people cancelling their p...

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Financial planning

Charging clients passive fees was rampant in the financial advice industry, but there is a shift post-FOFA, Peter Kell said....

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Funds management

The Federal Court of Australia has appointed two provisional liquidators from Deloitte to conduct an investigation into Avestra Asset Management....

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Financial planning

Provisional liquidators Leanne Chesser and Craig Shepard have been appointed to investigate financial services provider Ostrava Equities in response to an application by ...

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Financial planning

The financial advice industry is facing systemic issues rather than being plagued by just a few bad apples, says ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell....

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