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Financial planning

While the creation of a deferred sales model (DSM) to regulate the sale of add-on insurance was explicitly recommended by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne the industry is being...

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Funds management

The funds that have incorporated responsible investing principles outperformed most mainstream Australian and international peers, according to a report by the Responsibl...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has permanently banned former financial planner Neil John Evans of Wodonga, Victoria, from providing financial services following multiple examinations of his conduc...

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Policy & Regulation

Corporate whistleblowers will have stronger rights and protections from today after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission updated regulatory guidance. ...

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Features

Alternatives present a broad spectrum of assets available to investors. With such a wide variety to choose from, Laura Dew looks at how investors can determine which are ...

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Policy & Regulation

Taking a templated approach to financial advice has seen a financial adviser banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commiss...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing it can exercise its product intervention powers even if there has been no breach of the law....

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Financial planning

A major accountancy body has warned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that rising levies may promote an exodus by accountants working under limited pla...

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Policy & Regulation

Hacking a publisher’s Wi-Fi network with the intention of insider trading, engaging in insider trading, and deleting data from devices being examined by ASIC have seen an...

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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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Superannuation

ASIC is reminding product issuers that as part of their implementation of Protecting Your Super Package, they need to take care that, from 1 July 2019, Product Disclosure...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed just how much it has increased its focus on wealth management investigations over the past 14 months....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has backed its push for co-regulation and enforceable codes with a call for confidential information sharing with the Australian Securi...

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Financial planning

The AAT has affirmed ASIC’s to ban Mark Menzies from providing financial services, after he had engaged in manipulation of the price of MINI Warrants commonly known as “M...

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Financial planning

As financial planning firms worry about whether their professional indemnity insurance will cover legacy complaints, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

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