AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

ASIC has wound up an unregistered managed investment scheme known as Master Fund, which extracted $3.6 million from 40 Australian investors....

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Funds management

Disillusionment with the funds management industry and a hunger for transparency among clients is fuelling a move towards direct equities....

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Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has moved to correct the "misconception" that SMSF trustees have no legal options ahead of them in the event of fr...

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Funds management

A former director of fund manager Sovereign MF has been banned from providing financial services for four years....

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Financial planning

Updated regulatory guidance for applying for an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) removes the requirement to submit paper versions of documents lodged electron...

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Editorial

The dust has well and truly settled on the Federal Budget but, as Liz Westover writes, the Government needs to accept that its actions have served to confuse Australians ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged investors to avoid Connaught Investment Group....

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Financial planning

Two men have pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney to operating a Ponzi scheme called the Integrity Plus Fund....

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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed it has increased its efforts to better understand the inner workings of the financial planning industry by recruiting from within the sector....

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Financial planning

Norman John Graham, a former managing director of stockbroking firm Lonsec, has appeared in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria in Melbourne, charged with 14 counts of ins...

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Editorial

In the wake of concerns about APRA's handling of the collapse of Trio Capital it has emerged that the regulator has little or no idea how well superannuation funds perfor...

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Financial planning

ASIC is taking ongoing regulatory action against a number of financial planners who 'breached the law' in relation to Trio Capital....

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Financial planning

ASIC has offered relief to trustee companies engaging in intrafund transfers, releasing approval criteria and unifying prior State and Territory requirements....

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Financial planning

In the latest outcome of its investigation, ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Commonwealth Financial Planning employee Joe Chan. ...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC confirms it was consulted in negotiations involving the Financial Planning Association around last minute-changes to FOFA....

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