AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

Superannuation funds should be prepared to tell members when opting out insurance inside superannuation is in their best interests, according to the Australian Securities...

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Financial planning

Suggestions that robo-advice will be sufficient to meet the needs of those earning $80,000 are well off the mark, according to Investment Collective managing director, Da...

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Policy & Regulation

A key parliamentary committee chairman has challenged the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether it was trying to scare people with its self-managed ...

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Financial planning

Advisers receiving Adviser Service Fees via Colonial First State’s superannuation funds are facing an early cut-off unless clients specifically opt in....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has strongly urged the removal of the general advice exemption for financial product issuers because it undermines best interests....

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Superannuation

Running a SMSF is $8,900 cheaper than what ASIC believes, according to the SMSF Association....

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Policy & Regulation

Nicholas James Ellis has been sentenced for making false or misleading statements to obtain money from clients and fraudulent misappropriation of client funds....

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has identified eight red flags which would make it ‘extremely unlikely’ for an investor to gain any advantage from us...

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Policy & Regulation

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton, has pointed to regulatory concerns about the consolidation of investment funds and the consequen...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Beenleigh-based adviser, Ian Haisman, from providing financial services for seven years....

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Financial planning

A little talked about Australian Securities and Investments Commission project around the adviser best interests duty has been identified as substantially increasing red ...

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Financial planning

Max Kiattisak Eung has been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to obtaining financial advantage by deception of $166,500....

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Life/Risk

CommInsure has been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for offering to sell life insurance products via non-compliant unsolicited phone calls...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged a ‘sense of urgency’ be applied by companies to their non-financial risks, including compliance risk. ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

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