AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Policy & Regulation

There has been an upsurge in retail investors seeking to time the market in pursuit of quick profits and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned t...

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Financial planning

Some of Australia’s largest financial advice groups are facing the problem of too few advisers who are degree qualified leading to the need for strong succession planning...

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Financial planning

The FPA has partnered with three fintech providers to allow advisers provide early super advice more efficiently....

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Life/Risk

Amid suggestions by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority that the Activities of Daily Living regime is “very tough”, the major insurers have flagged key changes ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has challenged the sense and workability of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposals around time-limited supera...

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Superannuation

Australians are being targeted by scammers posing to be from Government agencies and that real estate agents are now telephoning tenants to access their super before aski...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced it has disqualified, suspended or added conditions to the registration for a number of self-managed sup...

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Financial planning

With or without code monitoring bodies or a single disciplinary body, some licensees have been breach-reporting to ASIC on adviser code breaches....

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Financial planning

The February sitting of the FASEA exam saw a pass rate of 82% and the June exam will not have a face-to-face sitting....

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Financial planning

Former adviser James Gibbs has been permanently banned, the first imposed utilising the recent extensions to the corporate regulator’s banning powers....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to hundreds of millions earned by stockbrokers, advisers and advice firms as a result of the stamping fee...

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Funds management

It is alleged the sponsored link advertisements promoting Mayfair debenture products were misleading or deceptive....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fired a shot over the bows of real estate agents who have been providing ‘advice’ to hard-pressed tenants about a...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was only conducting five investigations relating to industry funds compared to 16 relating to retail funds. ...

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Financial planning

It was well known that a consortium led by the FPA and AFA was seeking authorisation of as a code monitoring body but the Australian Securities and Investments Commission...

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