MISCONDUCT

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

The final ASIC inquiry report has found more than 26,000 reportable situations reports made by licensees during 2022–23 were assessed as requiring no action, while public...

Financial planning

ASIC has revealed the number of its enforcement outcomes which related to financial advice misconduct in the first half of 2023. ...

Financial planning

Single disciplinary body the Financial Services and Credit Panel has published its first outcome, relating to an adviser who impersonated a client on the phone....

Policy & Regulation

Leah Sciacca, ASIC senior executive for financial advisers, has outlined some of the activities of the Financial Services and Credit Panel, which commenced operations las...

Policy & Regulation

A Senate committee has called into question ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester's capacity to serve amid “mixed” evidence presented to a Senate committee regarding alleged m...

Policy & Regulation

Multiple permanent bans to advisers were handed out by the corporate regulator in the last year....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed 10 financial advice misconduct criminal cases are before the courts with six civil cases also yet to be...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has alleged OnePath incorrectly charged over $4 million in fees to more than 18,000 fund members when it was not entitled to do so....

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Financial planning

Affected clients will be among the first to know when licenses detect advisers who have done the wrong thing under new legislation to go before Parliament....

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Financial planning

APRA’s agenda to reduce poor behaviour and misconduct in the financial sector is an ambitious plan that will take four years to succeed, according to its chair....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will make an example of wrong-doers while suggesting that misconduct by some major financial institu...

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Policy & Regulation

A previous claim made by Millinium Capital Managers against a former adviser has been referred to the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority and Serious Fraud Office....

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Financial Wisdom advisor Anneliese Ada Willmott....

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Life/Risk

Life risk industry veteran, Michael Molesworth, has warned that underwriters and claims assessors need to be subject to more stringent education requirements or risk comm...

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