ASIC

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken another look at the ISA’s compare the pair advertising campaign amid Senate suggestions it does not compare...

image
Financial planning

The FPA has provided Treasury with its submission on the proposed industry funding model for ASIC. In its submission, the FPA has highlighted its concerns about the equit...

image
Editorial

If planners and licensees are asked to cede ground on the monetary and time limits which apply to FOS claims, then consequent FOS decisions must be laid open to appeals, ...

image
Financial planning

Following an ASIC investigation on contraventions of the Corporations Act, Ostrava Equities and its related equities have been appointed provisional liquidators....

image
Financial planning

A wholesale service provider’s AFSL has been cancelled by ASIC at the business’s request, two months after the regulator suspended it....

image
Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned Isaac Hakim from providing financial services after he misled clients on broker fees and insurance premiums....

image
Life/Risk

Park Trent Properties Group has been found to have given unlawful advice to over 860 people to establish and switch funds into an SMSF....

image
Policy & Regulation

The Government’s FSI response has delivered on higher educational standards for planners together with enshrinement of the term “financial planner/adviser”....

image
Financial planning

Wealth Today managing director, Greg Pennells, has called for robo-advice to be outlawed, calling it a ridiculous innovation that takes a one-size-fits-all approach to fi...

image
Policy & Regulation

LSG Group’s AFSL has been cancelled by ASIC after it failed to comply with the conditions on its licence and financial services laws....

image
Financial planning

ASIC has announced the permanent banning of a former Westpac authorised representative from providing financial services....

image
Policy & Regulation

The AIST called for transparency on ASIC’s industry funding model, cautioning against any decision-making until a cost recovery impact statement was available. ...

image
Outsider

Every once in a while, about as often as a solar eclipse, Outsider’s employer allows him to travel up the front of an aeroplane, usually meaning a seat in business class...

image
Financial planning

A mortgage broking firm has changed its Chinese-language advertisements after ASIC was concerned their statements could be misleading or deceptive....

image
Financial planning

The paper on an industry funding model for ASIC fails to highlight its merits compared to alternative models working well in other jurisdictions, the Governance Institute...

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

GG

So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

1 month ago
Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

1 month ago
gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

1 month ago

The decision whether to proceed with a $100 million settlement for members of the buyer of last resort class action against AMP has been decided in the Federal Court....

2 weeks 4 days ago

The Financial Advice Association Australia has addressed “pretty disturbing” instances where its financial adviser members have allegedly experienced “bullying” by produc...

3 weeks 4 days ago

ASIC has released the percentage of candidates who passed its August financial advice exam with the volume dropping to the lowest since November 2022....

2 weeks 4 days ago