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The Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) has gained the approval of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to oper-ate as an exter...

Financial planning

Australia’s superannuation system remains as baffling as ever to the people that use it, a survey has found....

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Australia’s investment watchdog is continuing action in the failed Wattle Group scheme that rocked the investment industry last year....

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Operators of mortgage investment schemes have been given more time to become licensed through the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

Superannuation fund's annual reports, compliance and complaints procedures will come under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as part...

Financial planning

Superannuation fund's annual reports, compliance and complaints procedures will come under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as part...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made final stop or-ders on the prospectuses for the The Oil Fields Project 4 and The Great Forests 1999 Pr...

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The Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) has become the first off the blocks in the race to sign up responsible entities to its scheme....

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The Wattle Group, who hit the Money Management headlines last year after being accused of leaving a group of investors high and dry are back in the headlines. ...

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Perth-based Guardian Funds Management plans to take the $10 billion private mortgage market to advisers with the launch of a new asset class....

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Regulation is a tricky balancing act for our financial services watchdogs. Tom Collins puts the case for less proscription on the latest batch of proposals from ASIC....

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When we last left our favourite lemming, newly annointed dealer principal Nick Bruining, being atacked by a group of brochure delivery men (BDMs). In this exciting instal...

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Former Australian Olympic rower Hamish McLachlan has been permanently banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or of an investment adviser....

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A Melbourne-based insurance multi-agent has been restrained from engaging in any further misleading or deceptive conduct in connection with any financial services he supp...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) are in discussions with a view to merging their external complaints ...

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