Regulatory consistency represents one of the keys to financial advisers being able to deliver affordable advice according to key submissions filed with the Australian Sec...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been criticised for ‘stalling’ over the tenure of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton following an expe...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been accused of misunderstanding the rules of scaled advice when it comes to the work undertaken by stockbrokers....

Plenty of financial advisers provide administrative assistance to clients to help them with their investments but, according to the Australian Securities and Investments ...

The Government has made an 11th hour plea to financial advisers to make submissions to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on its affordable advice revie...

Despite a slow start to the year, at least seven licensees reported net gains of two new adviser roles this week on top of 18 licensees who managed to add one new adviser...

Insurers have been granted some wriggle room on the regulatory requirements around delivering product disclosure statements and financial services guides to clients and a...

The licence will continue on a limited basis for anther year to ensure Halifax follows through required obligations to previous customers....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has claimed it does not enter into advice compliance projects on the basis of pre-determined pass rates....

2020 was the year of the Government’s hardship early release superannuation scheme and it was also a year during which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

The corporate regulator has approved variations to the banking code of practice, including improving the definition of small business....

Adviser numbers were already running close to 15% below the industry’s long-term average even before the end of 2020 and before the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has denied its chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, deliberately misled a Parliamentary Committee about the public ava...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is claiming licensees shouldn’t be needing to remediate clients beyond a seven-year horizon, but has left open the qu...