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Superannuation

ASIC has conducted a review into how superannuation funds communicated their performance test failures to members, revealing some may have risked misleading members....

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Funds management

ASIC has highlighted examples of problematic marketing in managed funds and expects to make a series of regulatory outcomes in the next few months....

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Financial planning

There is only one sitting left for advisers yet to pass the exam as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission reveals the pass mark for May’s exam....

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Policy & Regulation

Former Queensland financial adviser, Lawrence Toledo, has been convicted and fined $1,500 after pleading guilty to three charges of breaching an Australian Securities and...

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Policy & Regulation

A former subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank has been penalised $1.7 million for failing to update defective disclosure statements, the first conviction of its kind....

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Funds management

There are nine questions that fund managers need to ask themselves when launching a fund in order to prevent greenwashing, according to ASIC....

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Policy & Regulation

Spaceship Capital chairman Paul Dortkamp has been banned by ASIC for a “fundamental oversight” related to his responsibilities, less than six months after its former CEO ...

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has made its first conviction of an individual for using social media to co-ordinate a ‘pump and dump’ scheme of listed stocks. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released its latest cost recovery implementation statement for 2021/22, providing an estimated levy for financial...

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Policy & Regulation

Mark Thomas, former chief executive of van Eyk Research, has pleaded guilty to charges of dishonestly using his position to gain advantage for himself....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings against big four bank ANZ for allegedly misleading customers about the available funds and balances in their credit card acco...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has cancelled the registration of 10 auditors of self-managed superannuation funds who failed to lodge their annual statements....

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Financial planning

The financial advice profession has seen the second week of triple-digit adviser losses, with the industry shrinking by 129 to 16,783 advisers, according to Wealth Data....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Perth-based Quattro Capital, the licensee of authorised representatives who were part of Mayfair 101....

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People & Products

Former ASIC chair, James Shipton, has joined share trading and superannuation platform Superhero as a non-executive director....

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