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Financial planning

Regulators around the world are still trying to grapple with the unique challenges of regulating the use of mediums like social media and automated advice by intermediari...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has made interim asset preservation orders by consent against former Western Australia-based financial adviser Marion Joan Pearson and Colisa Pty Ltd, f...

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Financial planning

A former financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services by ASIC....

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Funds management

A review of disclosure to investors by the unlisted property industry has been described as “disappointing” by ASIC....

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Financial planning

Queensland-based financial adviser, Thanh Quoc Tu, who misled clients, has been permanently banned from engaging in the provision of financial services by ASIC. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled eight Australian Financial Services licences, after its review of licensees who failed to lodge audited annual statements....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland NV in relation to potential misconduct involving the Austr...

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Brisbane-based planning business, Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services Pty Ltd....

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Financial planning

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....

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Superannuation

A Victorian man has been charged with fraud after he allegedly coaxed investors to refinance their self-managed super funds and/or homes to fund his property development ...

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Superannuation

A new ASIC report confirms that super fees are not always what they seem....

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Superannuation

Both ASIC and the ATO have signalled they are scrutinising the legitimacy of SMSF seminars...

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Financial planning

The interim report of the Financial Systems Inquiry has pointed to higher educational standards for planners, a national exam regime and tougher powers for ASIC....

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Financial planning

ASIC wants the financial services sector to take the lead in developing standards for the issuance of complex products....

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Editorial

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...

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