PETER KELL

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released information to the public in relation to its approach to handling tip-offs, complaints, informati...

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Financial planning

Addwealth Financial Services has been forced to adhere to additional requirements under its Australian financial services licence after surveillance of its advice busines...

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Financial planning

ASIC is conducting a surveillance campaign to catch out unlicensed credit providers....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....

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Financial planning

Opposition puts regulators and industry funds on notice referencing parliamentary accountability and competitive neutrality....

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Policy & Regulation

Australia's two financial services regulators have acknowledged the level of stress and uncertainty being experienced by financial services companies as a result of the G...

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Policy & Regulation

Some question the background of key ASIC personnel handling FOFA regulatory development....

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Life/Risk

Funeral insurance could be the most expensive way to manage funeral costs, and ASIC is urging investors to consider all the alternatives....

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Financial planning

The company formerly known as RAMS Mortgage Corporation will refund more than $3.3 million to its customers after charging what the regulator considered unfair early term...

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Financial planning

An unlicensed Sydney-based financial planner has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Financial planning

ASIC has reminded the industry that advertising campaigns will be closely watched and regularly reviewed....

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Financial planning

City Index Australasia and its director Blair Jason Travers have been found guilty in Melbourne's Federal Court of a cold-calling scam that promised to generate returns f...

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Financial planning

BMW has been ordered by ASIC to repay $1,392,667 to customers after the car financer breached the National Credit Code....

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Financial planning

Avant has responded to ASIC concerns regarding a recent mail-out to policy holders that contained potentially misleading information....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Federal Opposition has signalled some of the so-called ‘concessions’ extracted around the passage of the FOFA bills may not have a life beyond...

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