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Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s chair, James Shipton has said that the watchdog would not look into AMP’s buyer of last resort arrangements unless there were further and better...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is facing tough questioning around how it has handled a number of issues amid the disruption of COVID-19....

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Features

The chair of licensee Synchron, Michael Harrison sees merit and advantages in a move towards individual adviser registration....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched a consultation on a second product intervention order to stop continuing consumer harm. ...

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Funds management

Firms in need of emergency capital raising have been granted a four-month extension by the Australian Securities Exchange to 30 November, 2020, as Melbourne goes into a s...

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Policy & Regulation

The penalty is a result of an infringement notice by the Markets Disciplinary Panel for on-market buy-backs of shares....

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Financial planning

The firm has pleaded guilty to four counts of client money breaches, each carrying a maximum penalty of $45,000....

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Financial planning

A member of a key Parliamentary Committee has queried whether financial planners are too afraid to challenge the Australian Securities and Investments Commission because ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s most senior financial planning executives cited advice they had given to the chair of the Financial Adviser Standar...

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Policy & Regulation

Steven Marsh has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for providing financial services for three years after making misleading representati...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission actually sought to rein in some elements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics that ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned Melbourne former responsible manager, Anthony David Wynd, from providing financial services....

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Editorial

Too many Governments have looked for quick fixes where financial adviser regulation is concerned and it is time for an audit and the removal of costly and unnecessary lay...

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Features

The passage of an extension of time for financial advisers to comply with FASEA education requirements in the Senate was a step towards a more professional advice system,...

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Features

The ETF market in Australia is unlikely to reach the heights or complexity of the US, writes Laura Dew, but industry experts believe the space is still a fast-growing and...

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