PETER KELL

Financial planning

A broker will refund $477,900 to 2000 consumers after the corporate regulator found it had charged consumers a brokerage fee when it was not allowed to....

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Life/Risk

Poor advice relating to life insurance is a systemic issue and not epithet work of a few rogues, according to ASIC....

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Financial planning

ASIC has launched legal action against Make it Mine Finance for violating consumer credit laws, including responsible lending duties....

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Financial planning

ASIC has issued a $42,500 penalty on payday lender Abaz Pty Ltd for failing to get the necessary account statements from consumers....

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Life/Risk

The Minister for Finance and Acting Asistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann will address a Money Management breakfast traversing key issues....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell warns against ‘gaming’ the general advice regime....

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell has confirmed intra-fund advice is on the regulator's surveillance radar....

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Financial planning

As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...

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Life/Risk

Suncorp has finished remediating its life and general insurance businesses after breaches that saw the insurer pay back $23 million to customers. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has ordered NAB to tweak claims on its home loan rate advertisements, as part of its crackdown on false and misleading advertising. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....

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Life/Risk

The corporate regulator is not seeking any changes to PI insurance requirements for advisers stating that ‘tinkering’ would not deal with problems related to claims or di...

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Funds management

The corporate regulator will consider model portfolios as a suitable investment under best interest duties if they do not adopt mechanistic processes on selecting assets ...

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Financial planning

A South Australian finance broker has pleaded guilty to forging a memorandum of mortgage, to defraud $170,000 from an investor....

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