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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing that obtaining professional indemnity insurance is not as big a problem for financial planning licensees a...

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SMSF

The corporate regulator alleges the financial technology firm’s brochure on self-managed superannuation funds was misleading. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is insisting it has empathy for financial planning licensees because it has both former advisers and paraplanners in ...

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Policy & Regulation

The stock exchange outage in November led to deteriorating liquidity, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found, but the regulator has questioned why...

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Policy & Regulation

The stock exchange outage in November led to deteriorating liquidity, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found, but the regulator has questioned why...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is now claiming that its pivotal REP 413 which acted as the catalyst for the Life Insurance Framework is no longer re...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is again being asked whether politicians have been guilty of providing unlicensed advice over their urging of people ...

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Policy & Regulation

Documents provided to a Parliamentary Committee have revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission paid a top tier legal firm for an independent opinion o...

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Policy & Regulation

The documents attaching to the rental allowance controversy which led up to the resignation of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chair, Daniel Crenn...

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Superannuation

With a number of superannuation funds having confirmed investment switching by fund trustees and executives during the early COVID-19 market volatility, the Australian Se...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has seen a “significant escalation” in complaints about unlicensed operators providing financial product advice witho...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that its industry funding model is helping underwrite the cost of consumer submissions such as those us...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial advisers may be significantly constrained in using the term “independent” but asset consultants are largely in the clear because asset consultation is not a leg...

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Life/Risk

Younger superannuation members and those in insurance policies with more restrictive terms and conditions may be receiving relatively low value for money, according to th...

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Policy & Regulation

Both the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Treasury will need adequate funding and resourcing to handle their new regulatory roles following the cl...

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