Even if financial planners don't agree with the findings of ASIC's recent shadow shopper survey, they should consider attending upcoming workshops addressing the findings...

ASIC has suspended the licence of boutique advice firm Australian Performance Financial Planning for three months because the company has been put under the control of an...

Despite its relatively small size, solid growth in recent years has made the exchange-traded fund (ETF) space the envy of managed funds and some of the other sectors. Fre...

If auditors are, indeed, the eyes and ears of the regulators in the SMSF sector, Liz Westover writes that the new auditor registration regime will prove to be crucial as ...

The industry's existing codes of conduct will require 'pretty radical surgery' before ASIC is likely to deem them sufficient, says Mallesons senior associate Michael Math...

The financial services industry may be obliged to dig deeper to fund the implementation of the Government's Future of Financial Advice changes as well as its Stronger Sup...

Following consultation with ASIC, Elders Insurance has repaid customers around $5.3 million as part of a program to rectify underpayments on motor vehicle insurance claim...

Financial Services Council sponsored research accuses unions and financial planners of "gaming" the default superannuation fund regime....

A former senior client advisor with Bell Potter Securities Limited, Glenn Russell Evans, has been charged with 15 counts of fraudulent conduct involving more than $1.06 m...

Company collapses have risen by 117 per cent to 1,123, reflecting a continuing 'lag effect' from the economic woes of the global financial crisis, according to research b...

Some of the players might not approve of the way in which the FOFA bills will ultimately be shaped but, as Mike Taylor reports, a Money Management roundtable has conclude...

ASIC has banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser from providing financial services for five years, making it three former Commonwealth advisers banned in ...

ASIC is undertaking a compliance program to assess the information lodged by Australian credit licensees (ACLs) in their annual compliance certificates....

The Financial Services Council and Association of Financial Advisers have joined together to provide a forum looking at life in a post-FOFA financial planning world....