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Financial planning

Westpac and NAB have paid penalties for misleading consumers, ASIC has revealed....

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Financial planning

ASIC has flagged a crack-down on breach reporting with particular emphasis on high risk licensees with poor cultures....

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Financial planning

Platform operators have complied with new regulations but more still needs to be done in managing conflicts and disclosing hidden fees....

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Financial planning

One of Australia’s corporate regulators has been accused of inconsistency in its policing of new entrants to the financial services space, with smaller innovators unfairl...

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Financial planning

ASIC has stressed the need for AFS licensees to submit written breach reports to it within 10 business days of finding a breach or likely breach....

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Financial planning

ASIC acknowledges that vertical integration gives rise to conflicts of interest but acknoweldges that scale has benefits....

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Financial planning

ASIC warns consumers to stay away from a fake website endorsing a foreign exchange broker....

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Financial planning

ASIC tells of man banned as a planner but still operating as an accountant and providing tax advice....

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, confirms planners and SMSFs are on ASIC’s radar over the next 12 months....

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Funds management

Merrill Lynch has paid a $96,000 infringement notice penalty after it filled an order that “had the potential to damage the reputation and integrity of the market”....

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Financial planning

A financial planner has backed ASIC’s call to instil financial literacy into the school education system, saying literacy is lacking in adults too....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s proposal to include financial literacy in the education system is a good one but financial literacy has to start at home from the parents, a personal loan speciali...

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Financial planning

The Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Section has urged against extending ASIC’s powers to encompass product intervention....

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Superannuation

The Financial Systems Inquiry has been told that while there are many educational events aimed at the SMSF sector, there exist significant variations in their quality....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Global Derivative Services after it failed to comply with licence obligations...

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