Ruth Stringer has been appointed by Herbert Smith Freehills to its Australian financial services team in Sydney....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched civil action in the Federal Court over the telephone sale of life insurance which saw sales agents offer...

Rather than an unwelcome compliance burden, the Design and Distribution Obligations and the ASIC Interventions Power can be a force for a better and more sustainable busi...

Mike Taylor writes that in the absence of a definitive methodology for ensuring clients are rebated the grandfathered remuneration which would otherwise have gone to fina...

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

Disability income insurance products and the way they have been designed do not work well for prolonged periods of disability or chronic conditions, according to the anal...

Financial planning organisations are seeking clarity from the Government on how its proposed new central disciplinary body for financial advisers will work and how much i...

Platinum Perpetual Globe Private Wealth has lost its Australian financial services licence after charges brought by Western Australian police....

Financial advisers should not be inadvertently caught up in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s tough new life/risk anti-hawking approach just because ...

Many of the financial advice businesses named by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority as having failed to pay complaint-related charges are already out of busine...

Following a remediation program Suncorp has compensated 4,000 GuardianFP clients....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled its intention to emulate the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by more frequently publishing t...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has speculated that a 50% increase in breach reporting may be the result of licensees clearing the skeletons out of t...

The Code Monitoring Authority established by the major financial planning associations will be ready to roll if, and when, it gains sign-off from the Australian Securitie...