ASIC

Financial planning

Questioning by a Liberal Senator has seen the Australian Securities and Investments Commission confirm that Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, got it wrong on intra-fund ...

Life/Risk

CommInsure will refund $12 million for unfair life insurance telephone sales to around 30,000 customers....

Policy & Regulation

Enforceable undertakings too often entail zero penalties and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission would prefer to litigate....

Policy & Regulation

Questions have been raised about the appropriateness of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission class order which absolves worker entitlement funds run by tra...

Financial planning

Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...

Policy & Regulation

In a bid to lift regulatory burden on super funds the two regulators are looking to share data for areas of common interest....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has granted planning licensees a three-year exemption from the requirements to have planners sign up to a code-monito...

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided a Parliamentary Committee with data confirming that self-managed superannuation funds with balances belo...

Policy & Regulation

GPS Wealth adviser, Mark Alexander Rothnie has been banned by ASIC for failing to act in the best interests of his clients and failing to provide appropriate advice....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has banned former Apogee and ANZ financial adviser Adrian Khaw who advised clients to use an SMSF and use LRBAs to purchase a property....

Policy & Regulation

Only two industry superannuation funds have been served with Australian Securities and Investments Commission infringements since the start of 2013 and the combined amoun...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has avoided declaring a targeted success rate for its ‘if not, why not’ approach to litigation and has foreshadowed t...

Superannuation

A superannuation fund has found itself in the Federal Court over Australian Securities and Investments Commission concerns about its use of a general advice model....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained freezing orders on the assets of a financial adviser who it alleged had failed to assist the Australian ...

Policy & Regulation

Two self-managed superannuation fund auditors have been disqualified by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission following referrals from the Australian Taxat...

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