ASIC

Policy & Regulation

The UK Financial Conduct Authority and Australian Securities and Investments Commission have agreed to strengthen cooperation post-Brexit....

Editorial

Despite the populist chest-beating rhetoric from some of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s most senior executives, superannuation funds don’t breach ...

Policy & Regulation

In a last legislative act by the current Parliament, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been handed its product intervention powers....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has imposed additional licence conditions on AMP Financial Planning....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has welcomed new legislation aimed to provide more protection for consumers from poor financial products....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has imposed additional licence conditions on SMSF Advisers Network....

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to act to ensure financial product manufacturers more consistently revea...

Superannuation

Changes to superannuation fee disclosure proposed by ASIC to improve transparency won’t solve the problem and could just increase confusion for consumers....

Superannuation

A positive budget outlook should spur important long-term policy direction, according to the Actuaries Institute....

Policy & Regulation

The Government has confirmed its funding promises with respect to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority....

Financial planning

The use of the term ‘general advice’ may finally be ending after a finding by ASIC that the division between personal and general advice confused consumers, according to ...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced increases in its levy demands on financial planning firms despite substantial increases in funding to b...

Financial planning

Many consumers are worryingly unaware of the distinction between general and personal advice, with 47 per cent of Australians incorrectly identifying general advice....

Policy & Regulation

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton has suggested that those who are pushing back against the regulator may still have som...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has moved to amend the regulatory settings to ensure the banks and other major financial institutions pay appropriately for close and continuous mo...

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