Former director of Spectrum Wealth Advisers, Mark Schroeder, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following numerous compliance failures....

Compensation paid by the six largest banking and financial services institutions for fee-for-no-service and non-compliant advice is at $749.7 million, according to the co...

The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....

Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....

Much of the commentary attaching to the first anniversary of the Hayne Royal Commission recommendations has tended to flatter what was, objectively, a flawed outcome thor...

Mike Taylor writes that advisers need to be alert to the current discussion around the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposed new design and distribu...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has driven home the message that it will look beyond adviser misconduct to those who allowed it to occur....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that AMP has been ordered to pay $5.175 million penalty after failing to prevent insurance churn by its...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained an order to win up Global Merces on just and equitable grounds....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed how it placed conditions on superannuation funds which had the effect of ending the payment of commissi...

Financial adviser Timothy Shapter has been banned for seven years for failing best interests duty and his licensee Smart Solutions has had its licence cancelled....

The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....