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Financial planning
ASIC has confirmed it is investigating the financial advisers who recommended investors to invest in the Shield Master Fund, as the responsible entity Keystone Asset Mana...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has shared details on how many investment and advice complaints were reported under the internal dispute resolution data reporting framework in FY...
Financial planning
An advice AFSL has seen its licence cancelled by ASIC this month for failing to pay an AFCA determination, which was then covered by the CSLR....
Financial planning
ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland says the problems regarding advisers recommending clients to invest in the troubled Shield Master Fund are far from being an “isolated inc...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Court has found a company director guilty of operating unregistered managed investment schemes and carrying on a financial services business without holding a...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has made multiple recommendations to ASIC regarding exercising its powers around AFSLs to mitigate the risk of failing companies including ...
Financial planning
There could be changes ahead for how ASIC requires licensees to handle conflicts of interest as the corporate regulator announces it will be meeting key stakeholders next...
Financial planning
Proper recordkeeping has been described as the “mortar between the bricks” of the advice process and critical to an FSCP decision as an adviser is suspended for failures ...
Financial planning
The FSCP has announced its latest verdict, suspending an adviser’s registration for failing to comply with his obligations when providing advice to three clients....
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled a Sydney AFSL for failing to pay a $64,000 AFCA determination related to inappropriate advice, which then had to be paid by the CSLR. ...
Financial planning
A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...
Financial planning
With the regulator announcing its enforcement focus for 2025 last week, law firm Hall & Wilcox examines the areas which have dropped down the list in priority for the reg...
Financial planning
A closer watch on licensees that fall short on cyber security protections is among a dozen new enforcement priorities announced by the corporate regulator for 2025. ...
Financial planning
ASIC chair Joe Longo says the complexity of the reportable situations regime for AFSLs is impeding the ability of the regime to achieve its original aim of identifying no...
Funds management
A former investment manager has been sentenced in Sydney for forging performance reports related to managed discretionary account investments....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...