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Financial planning

Mark McCabe has been charged for dishonestly obtaining over $940,000 from eight people, seven of whom were clients of his companies....

Funds management

ASIC has issued interim stop orders on three BT funds run by Advance Asset Management for DDO failings....

Financial planning

With ASIC proactively reviewing its financial advisers register, further bans on individuals and rising conflicts of interest among small licensees could be likely, accor...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a Sydney-based adviser for changing the result of his financial adviser exam and sending the altered certificate to his licensee....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Queensland adviser for three years for adopting a ‘layered advice’ strategy with clients....

Financial planning

Australians impacted by misconduct in the financial advice space have received just under $5 billion in compensation from six of the largest banking and financials servic...

Funds management

The Senate has ordered Treasury to disclose a confidential report detailing findings from a probe into alleged misconduct by ASIC's deputy chair. ...

Financial planning

Two former senior executives of Benjamin Hornigold Limited have been charged with dishonest breach of duties and misleading the ASX....

Financial planning

Melbourne-based Lino Salzano earned the title of adviser at just 21 years old, and has described the process of how he got there....

Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog has commenced consultation on proposals to revise ‘sunsetting’ class orders relating to the managed funds industry....

Financial planning

The adviser market seemed to be stabilising for the first time in many years, with no new licensees commencing or closing in the week to 2 March. ...

Policy & Regulation

A Senate committee has called into question ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester's capacity to serve amid “mixed” evidence presented to a Senate committee regarding alleged m...

Policy & Regulation

Financial services firms were among seven entities reviewed by the regulator as part of its work to develop corporate guidance for whistleblower protection....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC staff need to consider if they are taking on enough risk in choosing cases to litigate, according to chair Joe Longo, prompting a Senate committee to ask if it shoul...

Financial planning

A former director and CEO has pled guilty to two counts of engaging in dishonest conduct, with two further offences under consideration, for cheating investors of nearly ...

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