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Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds believe they are on safe ground in providing both scaled advice and intrafund advice citing the authority of the Australian Securities and I...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will not be pursuing the Commonwealth Bank over possible AUTRAC-related violations of the Corporatio...

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Financial planning

People facing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to make withdrawals from frozen managed funds under new relief measures announced by the Australi...

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Policy & Regulation

Companies who access the Australian Securities and Investments Commission new and expanded regulatory sandbox will get two years to prove their case including licensed bu...

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Financial planning

Six of Australia's largest banking and financial services institutions have offered a total of $1.05 billion in compensation, as at 30 June 2020, to customers who suffere...

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Policy & Regulation

Who will handle the rush of companies which go bust in the face of COVID-19 when registered liquidators are facing their own set of problems?...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that both Treasury and ASIC are conducting consultations which suggest that politicians of both stripes have finally woken up to the mess created in th...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator alleged that the IOOF subsidiary failed to have adequate cyber security systems. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Key correspondence between the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and Treasury over making class action litigation funding subject to an Australian Financia...

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Financial planning

Westpac has said it will not be defending ASIC charges against BT Funds Management and Asgard over fee for no service and has apologised to those affected....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against imposing another layer of regulation and cost on financial advise...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has obtained interim orders against PW Kitt Co and sole director Larry Dawson for a fraudulent SMSF advisory business. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled or imposed restrictions on 42 SMSF auditors for failing to maintain their audit experience....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has endorsed the ability of superannuation funds to obtain advice services from financial planning firms underpinned ...

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Financial planning

The unregistered managed investment scheme by Askk Investment Group is to be wound up as it had put substantial funds at risk for investors who were not afforded the prot...

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