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Superannuation

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

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

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

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

Policy & Regulation

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 Jade Private Wealth has entered into receivership....

Policy & Regulation

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

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

Policy & Regulation

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

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

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

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has proposed the first use for its product intervention powers will be addressing significant consumer detriment in t...

Financial planning

While the creation of a deferred sales model (DSM) to regulate the sale of add-on insurance was explicitly recommended by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne the industry is being...

Funds management

The funds that have incorporated responsible investing principles outperformed most mainstream Australian and international peers, according to a report by the Responsibl...

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