ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....
The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...
Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....
The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...
When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...
A former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to 10 charges of providing false loan applications to lenders totaling almost $3.8 million....
It was not a formal valedictory but Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, used an FSC function to thank those involved in the FOFA and financial services policy chan...
Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...
ASIC has released an information sheet on limited AFSLs, explaining in further detail their definition and scope....
The Future of Financial Advice regime will become law from 1 July, but as the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo points out, many questions vital to the finan...
ASIC launches Federal Court action over moves around sale of the Premium Income Fund....
After ASIC refused to provide an exemption to corporate super specialists under the FOFA reforms' conflicted remuneration provisions, the Corporate Super Specialist Allia...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former Lifestyle Group chief executive Murray John Priestley from providing financial services for ...
APRA buys into lapse/churn debate but points to particular problems with respect to directly-marketed products....
As part of its ongoing review of the sector, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released updated regulatory guidance for operators of registe...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...