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Financial planning

ASIC finds consumer leases market is failing low income earners and can be a very expensive household goods option....

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Financial planning

ASIC has urged advisers and licensees to update details on its Financial Adviser Register (FAR) or be hit with new fees and charges....

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Superannuation

Proposed ASIC class order changes to fees and costs disclosure are so opaque one industry group has called for whiteboards and an industry roundtable to dissect them....

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Financial planning

Regulators like ASIC and APRA were requesting their overseas counterparts to help them scrutinise financial institutions, a law firm said....

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Financial planning

A NSW-based tax and credit agent has been banned from providing financial services for four years after signing off on false documents created by his ex-wife....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants access to a penalty regime which can be scaled to fit the magnitude of crimes....

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Policy & Regulation

The stockbroking industry should not be targeted in ASIC’s cost recovery program as most complaints are against financial planners. ...

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Financial planning

Spring FG has denied any direct links to a planner permanently banned by ASIC....

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed licensing conditions on a Queensland-based financial services firm after identifying concerns over its ability to effectively carry out their supervisory...

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Financial planning

ASIC bans a former financial adviser after contravening financial services law when advising SMSF clients....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA supports user-pays funding for ASIC but only if it is equitable across the industry....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that bank planners and vertical integration are on the enforcement agenda for 2015/16....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial services users will be hit with increased costs if the Government pursues a ‘user pays’ funding model for ASIC, bankers warn....

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Policy & Regulation

Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has launched a public consultation to gage stakeholder views on the potential introduction of an industry funding model for ASIC....

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Accounting

The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has urged its members to heed ASIC’s warnings about time running out to pursue the new limited licensing regime....

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