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Accounting

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

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Financial planning

ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has hit out at the media for saying it bungled a loan fraud case worth $110 million, claiming the transgression it’s being blamed for is outside i...

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Financial planning

The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....

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Financial planning

ASIC has imposed conditions on the licence of Guardian Advice after finding advice that lacked a reasonable basis or lacked evidence it was given in the best interest of ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has concluded the past year with a spate of financial services licence cancellations with a total of 10 licences cancelled in the last working week before Christmas....

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Superannuation

ASIC cancelled the AFSL of Coal Industry Superannuation Fund after its merger with AUSCOAL Super last year....

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Financial planning

Two Melbourne men and one of their partners have been charged with conspiring to defraud financial institutions of approximately $110 million, following an ASIC investiga...

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Financial planning

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

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Funds management

ASIC plans to probe the mortgage lending standards of the Big Four, particularly honing in on interest-only loans. ...

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Financial planning

A broker will refund $477,900 to 2000 consumers after the corporate regulator found it had charged consumers a brokerage fee when it was not allowed to....

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Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

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Financial planning

The FSI final report recommendations has singled out life/risk commissions for particular attention, urging a level commissions approach....

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Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

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Financial planning

The FSI final recommendations seek to place greater onus on product manufacturers....

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