AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...

Financial planning

Switching for switching’s sake in the new choice of funds environment has been discouraged by the Financial Planning Association, which claimed yesterday that in most cas...

Funds management

Hedge fund managers have been warned they will come under increasing scrutiny from the corporate regulator, which has expressed concern that the complexity of some funds ...

Financial planning

Australia’s international reputation has been damaged by poor implementation of Financial Services Reform (FSR), with many other countries now actively looking to avoid m...

Financial planning

The requirement under financial services reform (FSR) to audit advisers is an expensive business for the dealers and a potentially stressful one for already overworked pl...

Superannuation

A self-managed superannuation fund adviser, who allegedly recommended consumers with as little as $8,000 in superannuation set up self-managed funds and then charged them...

Financial planning

An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....

Financial planning

The ASX has been chastised for continuing weaknesses in its supervision of the warrants market and disclosure provisions in the listing rules, in a generally upbeat asses...

Financial planning

A former Mawson Securities adviser who allegedly defrauded the Queensland company of nearly $500,000 is one of three separate fraudsters to be set upon by the Australian...

Top 100

This marks the seventh year Money Management has produced the Top 100 Dealer Groups Survey and it remains the most extensive report of its type in the industry. The surve...

Financial planning

A former South Australian financial adviser who converted the proceeds of client cheques for his own use has been found guilty of fraud in the District Court of Adelaide....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to clarify the position of employers and organisations with respect to talking with employees about the ne...

Financial planning

Allegations of misleading conduct and mismanagement are behind a class action launched yesterday by 737 investors against AM Corporation founder David Smith and a former ...

Financial planning

Trustees of superannuation funds have been given an extra year by the corporate regulator to provide Product Disclosure Statements to members that are meant to detail dif...

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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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