AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has laid 21 charges against Melbourne-based property developer Mark Stanley....

Financial planning

Two former directors of failed Sydney securities dealing company Australian Investors Forum (AIF) have been ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation to AIF and related...

Financial planning

In a move designed to help clarify some of the confusion surrounding the provision of general and personal advice regarding corporate superannuation, the Australian Secur...

Financial planning

Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore has escaped criminal conviction, despite pleading guilty to not giving four of his clients Statements of Advice after he had hel...

Financial planning

A man who placed advertisements in a Sydney newspapers using the catch-phrase "superannuation cashback" has appeared in Sydney's Central Local Court charged with 22 count...

Financial planning

Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore has escaped a criminal conviction, despite pleading guilty to not giving four of his clients Statements of Advice after he had h...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has announced a crack down on super advisers who recommend employers take employee funds out of corporate super and place them into commercial mas...

Financial planning

Industry groups have responded favourably to their possible involvement in the formulation of four additional example statements of advice ASIC intends to release in the ...

Financial planning

A company that claimed to show people how to make returns of 100 per cent in three months has been set upon by the corporate watchdog for publishing misleading advertisin...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumers’ Association has echoed the sentiments of ASIC by calling for tighter controls over the mortgage broking industry in light of the proliferation a...

Financial planning

Ascending to the summit of an organisation is an achievement people usually rank as a life long ambition but Corinna Dieters’ decision to stand for election as chair of t...

Financial planning

A recent Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) industry forum heard compelling evidence as to why product rationalisation is an issue that will increasingl...

Superannuation

Advisers are drowning in choice – that is, a growing choice of information and new research available to help them get the requisite levels of documentation they now requ...

Financial planning

Four large industry superannuation funds have been reprimanded by the corporate regulator for not clearly outlining how much insurance cover clients will lose if they lea...

Financial planning

A new report by Chant West is likely to enflame the ongoing fees debate between industry funds and retail master trusts by accusing some industry funds of not passing on ...

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