ASIC holding licensees to account for planner actions

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19 December 2018
| By Mike |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has used the cancelling of a small planning group’s license to stress that licensees and how they monitor their planners remains a key area of focus.

In doing so, ASIC has made clear that licensees as well as the planners they employ will be held accountable.

ASIC cancelled the license of Evermore Money Management on the basis that it was failing to comply with several key obligations as an Australian Financial Services licensee.

The regulator said it had cancelled the license after undertaking a surveillance which found that a representative of Evermore had advised clients to set up a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and invest their superannuation in Evermore.

ASIC said it found Evermore had failed to adequately monitor and supervise its representatives and manage conflicts of interest and that under the terms of the cancellation, the firm is required to wind down its financial services business by this Thursday, 20 December.

The regulator said the cancellation the Evermore AFSL was part of its ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry.

“AFS licensees are responsible for making sure that their authorised representatives are aware of their obligations. This means that licensees must ensure that their policies and procedures are up to date and comply with the law. They must also have robust procedures in place to check that their authorised representatives are complying with those policies,” the ASIC announcement said.

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