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ASIC issues fraudster warning...

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Financial planning

Constant flip flopping of FOFA laws have left advisers in limbo over what regulations constitute as law, Holly Nethercote believes....

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

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Accounting

Accountants moving to become licensed have been given a generous run but are failing in high numbers when applying for a licence according to a former ASIC licensing spec...

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Financial planning

Adviser sentiment has plunged to its lowest level in two years across several measures as the financial advice profession is mired in negative publicity....

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Financial planning

The chairman of Australia’s corporate regulator and his staff spent $45,000 in the second half of last year on international business travel, more than 80 per cent of whi...

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Financial planning

A Bundaberg-based building society has agreed to review its lending practices after ASIC raised concerns that it relied too heavily on information from a finance broker....

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Superannuation

ASIC warns that legislative moves which curtail its ability to access telecommunications data warrants will risk another Trio/Astarra....

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Life/Risk

QBE will ensure all future communications relating to escalated complaints and dispute resolution will have the company’s branding rather than an external legal firm’s, u...

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Life/Risk

ASIC has banned a Sydney-based insurance broker from the industry for three years after he allegedly failed to pass on collected premiums to insurers. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has approved nearly 500 applications for relief from provisions of federal legislation during the past September quarter. ...

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Financial planning

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has been told the ATO is on the right track with its ‘digital by default’ approach. ...

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Financial planning

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

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Financial planning

The major industry funds groups want ASIC to receive better budgetary resourcing to regulate financial planners....

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