Investigations by ASIC have resulted in charges being laid against the operators of a Queensland-based scheme that offered investors a 200 per cent return on their invest...
Shadow shoppers seeking financial planning advice for ASIC’s current shadow shopping campaign are no longer at large....
Prospectus issuers and their advisers have failed to fully meet Corporations Act disclosure requirements to provide “clear, concise, and effective” prospectuses according...
The Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) was formed early last year in order to set voluntary codes of conduct for its member organisations – ...
The ACA has called for greater prudential control over unsecured investments following the winding up of two Westpoint mezzanine finance companies, and warned investors o...
ASIC has delivered one of its most stinging criticisms of commission-based selling of financial planning advice, and called for dealer groups around the country to move t...
A financial adviser who deliberately concealed a criminal past from two prospective employers has been permanently banned from providing financial services....
Planning practices have been urged by the Financial Planing Association (FPA) to appoint a ‘conflicts officer’ in order to comply with new regulations, but the associatio...
ASIC has been too busy playing with the red tape of licence applications to perform its surveillance and enforcement activities, a damning report of the regulator’s perfo...
The AIOFP has criticised the FPA’s comments last week that investors, not planners, were responsible for money lost through investments in Westpoint-associated products, ...
Creditors who lost money from failed investments attributed to Westpoint are preparing to launch a class action against the financial planners who helped sell them the pr...
Canberra has criticised ASIC for negative comments one of its senior executives made about financial planners at a public function....
ASIC has made its regulatory presence felt in the superannuation choice of fund environment with exercises such as super switching surveillance and a current shadow shopp...
A former director of unlicensed Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been jailed for eight years for the theft of $2.1 million from cl...
APRA and ASIC will jointly release an industry best practice guide on unit pricing within the next three weeks....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...