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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission outgoing executive director of financial services regulation Ian Johnston has played down suggestions his departure is re...

Financial planning

Melbourne adviser falls for Nigerian scam

A Melbourne financial adviser has been permanently banned from the industry after falling for a Nigerian letter scam....

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ASIC appoints new consumer protection head

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed Greg Tanzer as executive director of consumer protection and international relations, replacing ...

Financial planning

ASIC’s Kell takes top job at ACA

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) executive director of consumer protection Peter Kell has left the industry regulator to take on the role of chief ...

Financial planning

ATO and ASIC alert investors to early super release scams

Investors have been strongly warned against illegal schemes promising access to their superannuation before retirement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commis...

Financial planning

ASIC to push for rationalisation of complaint schemes

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

Industry in dark over FSR compensation

Financial planners, stock brokers and insurance agents are being kept in the dark on how compensation arrangements will pan out under Financial Services Reform due to the...

Financial planning

Back to school for advisers

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have joined forces in an attempt to improve written communication...

Financial planning

ASIC calls on industry to remove poor advisers

The financial planning industry is struggling to rid itself of incompetent and outright fraudulent advisers due to dealer groups fearing defamation reprisals and a tarnis...

Financial planning

ASIC to pressure ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will seek indirect influence in regulating real estate ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes when it releases findings from an ind...

Financial planning

ASIC refuses to budge on survey blunder

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has refused to make any further moves in redressing the error which originally placed Brisbane-based Community...

Financial planning

ASIC/ACA admit blunder in advice survey

The credibility of the recent report into the quality of financial planning advice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consu...

Financial planning

‘Very poor’ groups respond as ASIC comes knocking

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) examination of financial planning groups named as having produced ‘very poor’ plans in the regulator’s recent...

Financial planning

Report puts industry on the defensive

A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...

Financial planning

ASIC targets groups named in report

The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) will act against individual firms named in a damning report released this week on the quality of financial pl...