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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned it will crack down on any organisation continuing to operate post-March 10 without a valid Australi...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed a new executive director of enforcement, Jan Redfern, to head-up the department responsible for ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken action against a director of a super fund and a promoter of a superannuation rollover scheme after a...

Financial planning

We are a financial planning practice that has developed from the old style insurance company. Because of this, we have about 4,000 clients spread all over Australia. Unde...

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

The Federal Government has issued a reminder there are only three months before the new Financial Services Reform regime takes effect and is urging practitioners to apply...

Financial planning

Financial planners advising clients over potential returns they can expect on agribusiness investment products may find themselves in breach of Policy Statement (PS)S170....

Financial planning

The number of complaint schemes operating in the industry is set to shrink. John Wilkinson reports from the inaugural Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) confere...

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

National Australia Bank-owned MLC has been has been granted 13 Australian Financial Services (AFS) licenses by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has given an undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to repaying some investors in its FAI Personal Superan...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) Pauline Vamos says her inclusion in this year’s Money Management Top 10 Most Influential list is a reflectio...

Financial planning

There is no doubt the Australian Consumers’ Association/Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ACA/ASIC) 2003 shadow shopping survey had a dramatic impact on...

Funds management

Rivkin Financial Services, established by the embattled Rene Rivkin, is set to establish a funds management arm after having its application approved in principle by the ...

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