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Your Super Accountant has paid a $2040 infringement notice penalty in relation to potentially misleading statements about the cost of setting a self-managed superannuatio...

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Financial planning

Esuperfund Pty Ltd has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices in relation to “false or misleading” online advertising....

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Financial planning

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s enforcement report for the first six months of this year appears to have skirted the issues that made the biggest headlines....

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Policy & Regulation

Macquarie has used its AGM to claim it is on track in meeting the terms of its 2013 Macquarie Private Wealth enforceable undertaking....

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Life/Risk

APRA deputy chairman claims insurers ignored the regulator’s warnings and ended up with self-inflicted wounds including premium increases of up to 150 per cent....

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Life/Risk

APRA has revealed a number of insuers are in run-off mode because they are no longer viable....

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Superannuation

A new ASIC report confirms that super fees are not always what they seem....

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Superannuation

The ATO has warned SMSF trustees about inappropriate use of home loan unit trusts and the risks entailed in attending overseas SMSF conferences....

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Superannuation

Both ASIC and the ATO have signalled they are scrutinising the legitimacy of SMSF seminars...

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Financial planning

ASIC points to so far modest take-up of limited AFSL and the emergence of concerning trends around RG 146 completion and professional indemnity....

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Policy & Regulation

Taxation Inspector-General’s report points to tax officers having insufficient ability to link evidence with appropriate penalties....

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the licence of Finance Technology Securities (FTS) after concerns it was inappropriately recommending double gearing strategies....

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Financial planning

A number of CBA planners have declared their anger at comments made by the FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe....

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