The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....

Regulator claims Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) had “very poor” record keeping and lack of detail in its advice documents....

ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...

A Melbourne accountant has been jailed for five years and eight months for operating 21 unregistered managed investment schemes relating to property development....

The financial services regulators have sent a clear message to the life/risk industry about its past mistakes. ...

Law firm suggests simple licensing compliance is the best way of avoiding undue regulatory attention....

The Commonwealth Bank has delivered a solid full-year result with its financial planning troubles making little impact in terms of comments or provisioning....

Your Super Accountant has paid a $2040 infringement notice penalty in relation to potentially misleading statements about the cost of setting a self-managed superannuatio...

Esuperfund Pty Ltd has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices in relation to “false or misleading” online advertising....

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....

ASIC has imposed new conditions on the AFSLs of CommFP and Financial Wisdom....

Treasury issues ‘Statement of Expectations’ to ASIC and other Australian regulators, asking them to adhere to its broad policy framework....

Learn about the pros and cons of owning AFSL and weighs them up against becoming an authorised representative of a larger licensee...