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Financial planning

For many years the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been urging the financial services industry to take a greater self-regulatory role in compl...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has modified the policy statement it issued covering the appropriate disclosure requirements outlined in section 1012IA of the Corporations Act ad...

Financial planning

A series of advertised competitions offering prizes as an incentive to ING superannuants to consolidate their super into ING’s super products is remarkable for both the n...

Financial planning

A Victorian-based company and holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence that acted as trustee for a number of superannuation funds, Top Quartile Management Limit...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has defended its handling of the Fincorp Group case, indicating that it has on numerous occasions warned the public a...

Financial planning

Supreme Court proceedings have commenced against a South Australian managed investment scheme that left investors owing more than $7 million....

Financial planning

A senior Government Senator has accused the Australian Securities and Investments Commission of failure with the respect to the Fincorp collapse....

Financial planning

Financial planners at both the dealer group level and at the individual adviser level recognise the benefit of linking Financial planning with mortgage broking. ...

Financial planning

Promina Group has paid a $100,000 fine following an investigation by ASIC into an alleged failure to comply with the continuous disclosure obligations of the Corporations...

Financial planning

ASIC has been receiving more reports about breaches of the Corporations Act, but has been acting on fewer of them, according to a report by the Australian National Audit ...

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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has reduced a ban from providing financial services imposed by the regulator against Julian Hayes, a former representative of Macquari...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the winding up of several Melbourne-based investment scheme...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained injunctions in the Brisbane Supreme Court to stop a managed investment scheme involving $11 million....

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