ASIC

Editorial

There has been a tendency to forget about the ACCC ever since the regulation of consumer protection in the financial services industry moved to ASIC in 2001. But as Grant...

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Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has outlined the draft ground rules on conflicted remuneration and, as Mike Taylor writes, there are inevitable impac...

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Financial planning

Madison Financial Group is rolling out a compliance framework that uses estate planning as a context for the best interests duty....

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Financial planning

Complex retail products will come under the ASIC's scrutiny due to poor market returns and growth in the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector....

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Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released information to the public in relation to its approach to handling tip-offs, complaints, informati...

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has questioned ASIC over its failed move against Fortescue Metals....

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Financial planning

Financial planning groups will lose the presumption of innocence where volume rebates are concerned....

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Financial planning

Credit Suisse's Australian equities arm has paid a $52,000 penalty to ASIC after a glitch in its automatic order processing system was found to have breached "the efficie...

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Financial planning

A review of ASIC's GFC short-selling ban has identified the benefits and the costs - and the fact the regulator would likely do it again....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned two former planners for three years and six years, respectively....

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Financial planning

The recently announced industry standard for defining a hedge fund presents a catch-all concern to unaware fund managers....

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) has been forced to pay $50,000 to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as penalty for its involvement in a mislea...

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Funds management

The recently announced industry standard for defining a hedge fund presents a catch-all concern to unaware fund managers....

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Life/Risk

Insurance brokers have told Money Management Vero Insurance representatives have alerted them to a price hike of up to 50 per cent to Vero's professional indemnity insura...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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