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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is investigating a range of investment switches undertaken by trustees and executives of major superannuation funds. ...

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Financial planning

Enforcing the law against advisers is all part and parcel of building consumer confidence in the financial planning industry, according to the Australian Securities and I...

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Financial planning

A link has been uncovered between the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Consumer Advisory Panel and a key submission regarded as highly supportive of the...

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Financial planning

A designation of work by two Griffith University academics as “consultancy/commercial research” has raised questions about the status of a 2018 submission to the Financia...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s ban on Perth self-managed super fund adviser Wayne Blazejczyk has been upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....

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Financial planning

Warren Acworth has been charged with offenses relating to false or misleading statements and fraud after an investigation by the corporate regulator....

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Policy & Regulation

In the first criminal prosecution for offending of this kind, Mark Kawecki has been convicted and fined $30,000 for dishonest conduct relating to artificially satisfying ...

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Financial planning

The submission, that has not been made live by the authority, matches material obtained by Money Management earlier this year that sought to understand the meaning of “in...

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Financial planning

360 Capital has made an overt plea to Evans Dixon shareholders to allow it to over-ride the current board by taking the business private citing complexities including cur...

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Financial planning

Industry submissions regarded as fundamental to the final shape of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics have been made visible on the FASEA...

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Editorial

The standing aside of Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton, points to fundamental issues with respect to the regulator....

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Features

The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...

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Outsider

Outsider knows what it’s like to be treated like a mushroom. He is not unfamiliar with being kept in the dark and being fed execrable information....

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Outsider

At the time of writing, Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton remains stood aside awaiting a Treasury-instigated independent review of the...

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Policy & Regulation

The Queensland property developer has been found guilty of six counts of self-managed super fund fraud totalling $345,000, having initially arrested back in 2017....

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