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ASIC chair Greg Medcraft emphasises regulator’s enforcement efforts and states does best it can with resources to hand....

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Financial planning

The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...

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Financial planning

Two former Sydney brokers have been convicted of fraud following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has responded to its grilling at a Senate Committee by restating its compliance with the inquiry’s requests for more information. ...

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC has lambasted ASIC and CommFP and signalled further quizzing of compensation arrangements....

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Financial planning

The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....

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Superannuation

ASIC grants relief to super fund’s advisory arm to reduce advisor exposure to personal liability....

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Superannuation

The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Victorian finance broker Kieu Thi-Thanh Huynh from carrying out credit activities after...

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Financial planning

The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....

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Financial planning

Sentry Financial Services to write to SMSF clients after ASIC surveillance of corporate authorised representative...

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a trader employed at Westpac Institutional Bank for creating fictitious trading entries and a false...

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Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) review supports the rule changes affecting dark trading made last year....

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Financial planning

The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees are being warned that they will pay the price for poor product selection if they fail to ensure fund compliance under a n...

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