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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned brokers to be careful about or reconsider offering high-risk products and services to retail invest...

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The Quality of Advice Review's preliminary findings have proposed a number of reforms for the financial advisory space, including a greater focus on providing 'good advic...

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The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has released its latest four-year plan outlining its priorities to achieve “a fair, strong and efficient financi...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a Perth-based financial services director for six years after the regulator found she demonstrated a lack ...

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A Government review will look into streamlining the education requirements for financial advisers, a ministerial announcement reveals....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it will focus on improving the operation of the breach reporting regime as part of its 2022-23 priorities....

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A former New South Wales financial adviser has been permanently banned by the regulator for engaging in dishonest conduct....

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The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised rates for the fourth time this year....

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ASIC has banned Albert Christen Walters, known as Chris Walters, a former director of a financial services licensee, from performing the functions of an officer and a res...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has imposed its first design and distribution stop orders on three financial firms in response to deficiencies in the...

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has launched a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia to ensure it is the “world’s best central bank”. ...

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A former Sydney financial adviser has been sentenced to three years and two months imprisonment and fined $9,500 for acting dishonestly as a company director and stealing...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 1 day ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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