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Superannuation

At least two companies were warned by the regulator to stop charging fees ranging from $199 to $299 for facilitating superannuation early release when the process is mean...

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Superannuation

National Australia Bank super entities NULIS and MLC Nominees have been hit by Federal Court penalties out of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission action o...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial services companies cannot necessarily rely on claims of legal privilege to prevent the Australian Securities and Investments Commission obtaining documents – so...

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Policy & Regulation

Former investment analyst, Michael Ming Jinn Ho, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for insider trading in Bing Un Limited shares....

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Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has set aside the disqualification of SMSF auditor John Gilliland by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Superannuation

Product disclosure statements from superannuation and managed investment product issuers given on or after 30 September, 2022, must comply with the new fees and costs req...

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Policy & Regulation

The Commonwealth Bank is facing court action initiated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission which might have been avoided if it had properly and transp...

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Outsider

Outsider feels sure that financial advisers will be heartened by the news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has 2,237 employees and that over the ...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is backing the Federal Court’s precedent in the IOOF case on how and when superannuation funds can use member reserve...

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Financial planning

John Bigatton has been banned by the corporate regulator for providing unlicensed financial product advice in relation to a cryptocurrency platform....

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Financial planning

Synchron’s Don Trapnell has renewed his call for specialist life/risk advisers to be held to a different level of educational requirements to advisers providing holistic ...

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has obtained an interim injunction against Mayfair 101 managing director, James Mawhinney....

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SMSF

The corporate watchdog allege that Brett Gordon withdrew $502,000 from self-managed super fund bank accounts without authorisation, and paid personal debts using funds be...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has used an updated pre-Budget submission to urge the Government to roll functions of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Author...

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Funds management

The corporate regulator has offered regulatory relief for initial public offerings following public consultation....

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