AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

Six more Harts companies will be wound up after the Federal Court of Australia granted an application to appoint a liquidator to the companies which are within the Harts ...

Financial planning

Kerry John Burke has become the second financial planner in little more than a year to be sentenced with a 10 year jail term for misuse of client funds, according to the ...

Financial planning

Growing interest in investing has also called attention to some less than professional practices. Tom Collins argues that in the public’s eye planner renumeration may fal...

Financial planning

Coming to grips with the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act is crucial for those providing education within financial services according to Australian Securities and Inv...

Financial planning

Saxby Bridge Financial Planning has had its securities dealer license stripped and one of its investment advisers banned for five years following the latest crackdown on ...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has little to fear from the re-election of a Howard Liberal Government notwithstanding the fact that the Minister for Financial Services, ...

Superannuation

The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...

Policy & Regulation

The Minister for Financial Services Joe Hockey has labelled the superannuation surcharge as a bad tax but says it was necessary to cover some budget shortfalls inherited ...

People & Products

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has striped Harts Staff Superannuation as the corporate trustee of the Harts Australia Staff Superannuation Fund, ap...

Financial planning

Consolidators have been big news in the last year but their success has been mixed. Simon Segal examines where they fell in this year’s rankings....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) board of directors has released further details of a proposal to alter its membership structure for professionals working in the ...

Financial planning

Financial services group Harts Australasia may have left the financial services industry reeling in the past week with news of its collapse, however, it appears that the ...

Financial planning

The introduction of new privacy rules in December still holds uncertainty for parts of the industry, as ground rules are yet to be laid. Mike Taylor looks at the effects ...

Financial planning

In recent weeks the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been particularly active in the prosecution of its duties in the financial services indust...

Financial planning

The founder and executive chairman of financial services group Harts Australasia, Steve Hart, faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with 11 tax-related fraud offen...

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