ENFORCEMENT

Financial planning

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

Financial planning

A closer watch on licensees that fall short on cyber security protections is among a dozen new enforcement priorities announced by the corporate regulator for 2025. ...

Funds management

A former investment manager has been sentenced in Sydney for forging performance reports related to managed discretionary account investments....

Financial planning

ASIC’s Sarah Court has confirmed the regulator is carrying out systematic work on providers of unlicensed advice but admits it is a case of “whack-a-mole” when it comes t...

Financial planning

ASIC has released its annual report for the 2023–24 financial year, recording a 43 per cent year-on-year rise in alleged misconduct reports. ...

Financial planning

Money Management compiles ASIC’s enforcement action against financial advisers and licensees during the third quarter of 2024, including sentencing, bannings and FSCP act...

Financial planning

The regulator says it secured $32.2 million in civil penalties and nine criminal convictions in the six months to 30 June....

Financial planning

A wide range of strategic priorities are set to fall under the corporate regulator’s enforcement spotlight in the next 12 months, including the risk management and data s...

Financial planning

In light of recent ASIC investigations, Assured Support has outlined how compliance programs can fail within advice practices and licensees if they are treated as “neces...

Policy & Regulation

The Governance Institute has said ASIC’s governance arrangements are no longer “fit for purpose” in a time when financial markets are quickly innovating and cyber crime b...

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a financial services director for 10 years and cancelled the AFSL of his company for his “cavalier attitude” to financial services laws, including inappro...

Funds management

ASIC has reassured investors that Australian equity markets operate with a “high level of integrity” following its latest market cleanliness report....

Financial planning

The decision to convict an NSW individual this week for unlicensed financial advice hinged on the use of disclaimers in a PowerPoint presentation....

Financial planning

As the 2023–24 financial year comes to a close, Money Management reviews the financial advisers who fell under the regulator’s enforcement spotlight....

Financial planning

ASIC has detailed to the Senate economics committee why it decided to pursue action against Dixon Advisory rather than the individual advisers involved in the wrongdoing....

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