ASIC

Financial planning

Heavy lifting on grandfathering falls to product issuers

The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....

Life/Risk

Life insurers face exposure to third party beneficiaries

Life/risk advisers face taking account of a new factor – the reality that Government changes to bring insurance under the Unfair Contracts Terms regime will expose life i...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC to review market maker funds

The Australian Investments and Securities Commission has asked market operators to exclude any new managed funds that fail to disclose their daily portfolio holdings and ...

Superannuation

Auditor disqualifications commended by SMSF Association

The SMSF Association has thrown its support behind the Australian Securities and Investments Commission decision to disqualify or add conditions to 17 auditors of self-ma...

Financial planning

ASIC confirms end to Spectrum license

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed the cancellation of the Spectrum Wealth Advisers license and has notified all advisers and clients of t...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC to sue ANZ over unlawful transaction charges

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has commenced proceedings against ANZ over account and periodic payment fees after it was alleged to have unlawfully ...

Financial planning

Sam Henderson banned for three years

High profile former adviser, Sam Henderson has been banned from providing financial services for three years....

Policy & Regulation

SMSF auditors suspended by ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has acted to disqualify or add conditions to the number of self-managed superfund (SMSF) auditors after concerns they...

Policy & Regulation

Sydney-based financial planning firm enters into liquidation

Sydney-based financial planning firm Jade Private Wealth has entered into receivership....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC proposes ban on direct telephone life sales

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has started a consultation process ahead of a proposal to ban unsolicited telephone sales of direct life insurance....

Financial planning

VOFF accuses Labor of “politicising a crime” in Trio fraud

Aussie politicians make “politicised and dishonest decisions about ‘fraud’” despite having no law enforcement of forensic investigation skills, Victims of Financial Fraud...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC cancels licence of Sydney financial services provider

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the licence of Sydney-based Australian Mutual Holdings after the banning of its joint executive directo...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC targets licensees over lack of AFCA membership

Over 50 financial services and credit licensees have been formally suspended or cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after failing to obtain ...

Features

Everyone’s responsibility to be invested in the planet’s future

Responsible Investment Association Australasia chief executive, Simon O’Connor writes that while ESG investing may have become mainstream it is still a work in progress....

Policy & Regulation

Former Adelaide financial adviser sentenced

Former Adelaide financial adviser James Gibbs has been sentenced for 10 years imprisonment to theft and other dishonesty offences, totalling approximately $4.88 million....