AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

In response to industry confusion, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has clarified that authorised representatives do need to identify their Australian...

Financial planning

The assets of Neil Burnard, the sole director of Palentia, continue to be frozen, after the court orders enforcing the action were once again extended....

Financial planning

The Tasmanian District Registry of the Federal Court of Australia has issued orders to wind up two unregistered investment schemes that attracted over $5.5 million in inv...

Financial planning

A bill that will allow the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to enter into a cooperative audit arrangement with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight ...

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Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has argued that recent efforts to harmonise arrangements with the other financial services reg...

Financial planning

A Queensland financial adviser has been charged with seven counts of fraud, including six counts of misappropriating over $100,000 worth of clients’ money....

Financial planning

A financial services representative in Queensland and another in NSW will be unable to work within financial services for five years following a ruling by the Australian ...

Financial planning

A West Australian-based risk adviser has criticised the regulator in a submission to a Federal Parliamentary inquiry for an alleged bias in favour of industry funds in ta...

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Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is pushing for regulatory amendments which would allow super funds to play a greater role in the provision of financi...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought 18 charges of theft and dishonesty against a financial adviser in the Bendigo Magistrates Court....

Financial planning

Research showing that 69 per cent of self-employed or small-business people have no income protection has prompted Asteron to upgrade its life insurance and Wealthstar pr...

Financial planning

A judgement by the Federal Court will make it easier for clients of the Melbourne-based company, Money for Living, to seek legal advice after an announcement last week th...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought 30 criminal charges against Robert Orehek regarding the misappropriation of mezzanine finance funds raise...

Financial planning

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has used its submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into structure and operation of the superannuation industry to argue that whil...

Superannuation

An unregistered managed investment scheme involving the Victoria Garden Retirement Village and Primelife Corporation had a liquidator appointed to it this week following ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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