AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

The two financial services regulators – ASIC and APRA – have combined resources to address the vexed unit pricing issue by jointly publishing a guide outlining what they ...

Financial planning

This year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has left little room for doubt on just how serious it is about implementing and enforcing financial...

Financial planning

There can scarcely be a financial planner in Australia who would begrudge Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce his inclusion on Money Management’s list o...

Financial planning

The unprecedented influence that the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA’s) chief executive Kerrie Kelly has had over the financial planning profession in the last 12 m...

Financial planning

Despite contributing almost half a million dollars to its new television advertising campaign, the FPA has posted an after-tax budget surplus of $1.187 million for the ye...

Financial planning

A former NAB financial planner is facing criminal charges for allegedly defrauding bank customers of more than $4.7 million over a seven-year period....

Financial planning

Creating another four example statements of advice, including one with a “real fair dinkum super switch”, will be among the corporate regulator’s chief tasks in the year ...

Financial planning

Corporate super advisers are seeking further guidance from ASIC on the provision of advice to fund members, particularly in areas where individuals are seeking more perso...

Financial planning

A former National Australia Bank financial planner is facing criminal charges for allegedly defrauding bank customers of more than $4.7 million over a seven-year period....

Financial planning

ASIC has launched Federal Court action against the directors of a failed Victorian vendor of equity release products that put the financial security of at least 120 inves...

Financial planning

A former Mawson Securities authorised representative, Robert Pierre Macville, has been permanently banned from providing financial services after ASIC in June this year b...

Financial planning

150,000 of fund manager ING Australia’s clients are to be reimbursed an average of just under $100 each after the discovery of unit pricing errors in their life insurance...

Financial planning

An adviser who sought to encourage people into self-managed superannuation funds by helping them locate lost super accounts has been convicted in the Federal Court and or...

Financial planning

Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator is standing by its decision to ask Bridges Financial Planning to conduct an external audit of its compliance procedures, despite claims by Bridges...

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