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Funds management

IOOF has commissioned PWC to undertake an independent review of allegations relating to insider trading, front-running and breach reporting....

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Superannuation

A recent determination by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has revealed the ugly consequence of super funds investing in highly illiquid assets....

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Financial planning

IOOF seeks to rebuff newspaper allegations and points to ongoing legal disputation with a former employee....

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Superannuation

Industry fund body, AIST, tells Government strategies are utilising SMSFs, wraps and SMAs to indefinitely postpone the payment of CGT....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds want the regulators to tell them how they actually spent the millions of dollars in financial services supervisory levies....

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Life/Risk

ASIC signals that despite the industry’s position responding to Trowbridge, it is continuing to pursue enforcement over life/risk misconduct....

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator has a $50 million war chest that he’s ready to use against banks, planners and other miscreants....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC - today rocket scientists, tomorrow dark pools, Sunday black holes and next week boldly going where no regulator has gone before....

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The ATO has been told to work with stakeholders, including industry funds, to overcome employer superannuation guarantee non-compliance....

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Financial planning

ASIC has acknowledged that newspapers headlines were wrong about planners taking big commissions to recommend residential property investments and that not one planner co...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants the Government to consider allowing ASIC the ability to pursue companies and officers over misdeeds caused by bad culture....

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Funds management

Fear must be a greater factor than greed in influencing better standards of behaviour in the financial services industry, according to ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft....

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Financial planning

ASIC refuses a planning firm permission to tailor how its planners’ remuneration and bonuses are revealed to clients....

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Financial planning

ASIC and the Federal Treasury have been told to get real about the time needed to implement significant legislative and regulatory change in financial services....

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Financial planning

Proposals canvassed for measuring the performance and value for money provided by ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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