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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has shut down another illegal early super release scheme with the scheme’s operators surrendering their passports pen...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has interjected an American investment roadshow operating in July and August around Australia to ensure attendees do ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a former Melbourne financial adviser from acting as a financial services representative for four years, af...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is continuing to pursue Macquarie Towns Financial Services director John Michael Higgins, after yesterday call...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will crack down on shoddy financial reporting to ensure accounting standards are met as a key focus in its 200...

Financial planning

A former Godfrey Pembroke financial adviser has pleaded guilty in the Tasmanian Supreme Court to embezzling millions of dollars of client investment assets to fund his ou...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has netted its fourteenth promoter of the failed Wattle Scheme following the sentencing of a Brisbane-based di...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has criticised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for providing an exemption from the Financial Services Reform regime to mortgag...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Perth-based investment adviser from acting as an authorised representative of a securities dealer...

Financial planning

Q: I am the nominated responsible officer of our Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). What am I responsible for and what am I potentially liable for?...

Financial planning

A former director of a company associated with the failed Wattle Group was last week convicted in the Brisbane District Court on 12 charges of being knowingly concerned i...

Financial planning

An adviser from Darling Point, New South Wales, has been banned from representing a securities dealer or investment adviser for five years after his company breached cond...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has lost a Full Federal Court appeal against a decision to reinstate the securities dealer licences of Saxby B...

Financial planning

With all the changes the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) has brought, what do you need in terms of education to become a financial planner? Julie Bennett reports....

Financial planning

Four men embroiled in the failed Wattle Group investment scheme through their association with sourcing agent Australasian Management Consultants (AMC) were sentenced yes...

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