ENFORCEABLE UNDERTAKING

Financial planning

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

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Accounting

The former director of an accountancy firm has been banned by ASIC for being part of a scheme which raised funds from clients for mezzanine finance and mortgage lending....

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Financial planning

A Sydney-sider who made investment recommendations to clients without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) has been banned from providing financial ser...

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Aurora as part of the regulator’s wider surveillance of the hedge fund sector....

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken its case against a property company to the Supreme Court, arguing the group is spruiking the use of ...

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Financial planning

The Macquarie Group has announced a $678 million half year profit with its banking and financial services and managed funds business contributing heavily to the group’s p...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has set a date for the rollout of its public adviser registry, which licensees will fund via increased lodgement fees up to $44. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed it has tightened its approach on enforceable undertakings in the wake of those applying to Commonwealth Financial Planning and Macaquarie Private Wealt...

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Financial planning

Regulator claims Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) had “very poor” record keeping and lack of detail in its advice documents....

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Financial planning

ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...

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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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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from PGW Financial Services....

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Financial planning

PIS has completed a monitoring program with ASIC stating the group had made significant improvements in compliance and audit functions...

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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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Policy & Regulation

Coverage of the Commonwealth Bank planning saga has clients believing the events happened “yesterday”, placing increasing pressure on advisers to justify their value prop...

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