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Policy & Regulation

The corporate watchdog will provide relief from financial adviser compliance obligations, following the government’s announcement it would establish a single disciplinary...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged a surveillance exercise around life/risk advice to back up its assessment of the Life Insurance Framework...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed the degree to which grandfathering will come to an end without the Government having been fully apprised...

Policy & Regulation

Disclosure is no longer the ‘silver bullet’ it once was, according to a report by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, which examined the effectiveness o...

Superannuation

Running a SMSF is $8,900 cheaper than what ASIC believes, according to the SMSF Association....

Policy & Regulation

Nicholas James Ellis has been sentenced for making false or misleading statements to obtain money from clients and fraudulent misappropriation of client funds....

Policy & Regulation

The Government’s decision to scrap industry-run Code Monitoring Authorities will save the major planner bodies millions in set-up and running costs....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is due to appear before the House Economics Committee this Wednesday to discuss how it is implementing the Hayne Roya...

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has identified eight red flags which would make it ‘extremely unlikely’ for an investor to gain any advantage from us...

Policy & Regulation

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton, has pointed to regulatory concerns about the consolidation of investment funds and the consequen...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Beenleigh-based adviser, Ian Haisman, from providing financial services for seven years....

Financial planning

A little talked about Australian Securities and Investments Commission project around the adviser best interests duty has been identified as substantially increasing red ...

Financial planning

Max Kiattisak Eung has been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to obtaining financial advantage by deception of $166,500....

Life/Risk

CommInsure has been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for offering to sell life insurance products via non-compliant unsolicited phone calls...

Features

Laura Dew explores how the managed account space could change in the future as the industry awaits the conclusion of an ASIC review of the sector....

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

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