PETER KELL

Financial planning

Former South Australian financial planner Trevor Wayne Carll has been sentenced to two years in prison with a 13-month non-parole period....

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Financial planning

AMP Horizons has made changes to its advice processes after they were found wanting by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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Editorial

Plan B's Andrew Black could be forgiven for thinking he is being followed by IOOF in the wake of its acquisition of the dealer group....

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Financial planning

ASIC announces targeted surveillance of research providers under new policy approach....

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Life/Risk

Some insurance and credit comparison websites are not properly licensed to provide financial services, according to ASIC....

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Financial planning

A former licensed finance broker from Western Australia has been permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activities....

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Financial planning

ASIC has upgraded its guidance on financial services advertising and warned of potentially stronger penalties for breaches....

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Editorial

With ASIC's Peter Kell pointing to a level of life insurance policy churning to warrant regulatory concern, it is time for a clear definition of 'churn'....

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Financial planning

Rapid growth of some financial services licensees has caused regulator concern due to many of them lacking support systems for larger numbers of advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

There is no reason why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should not approve a code of conduct for a single licensee or dealer group, says Minter...

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Life/Risk

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell told Money Management there was enough life policy churning in the financial advice industry for the regulator to be concerned about the issu...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC is planning to release further information which would complement consultation papers regarding issues such as recommending products outside of an APL, fee disclosur...

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Financial planning

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell has told Money Management that while introducing licensee-specific codes of conduct is an option, it could be a costly and complicated proces...

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Financial planning

AFA signals it will be working to align its Principles of Practice with the outline contained in ASIC consultation paper....

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Financial planning

ASIC report reinforces importance of EDR process despite debt recovery processes against clients....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 2 weeks ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

4 weeks 1 day ago

ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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