ASIC

Financial planning

Macquarie Equities Limited has paid $24.7 million in compensation to 263 clients since it started its remediation program in 2014....

Funds management

Synergy Financial Markets has paid over $10,000 after ASIC found it had engaged in misleading advertising on its website....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that serious questions are being asked about whether the Government’s proposed enhancements to the AFSL breach reporting regime will be worth the incre...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the license of Sydney-based company, Investment Advisers Alliance Pty Ltd....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it wants its intervention power extended to cover problematic remuneration arrangements....

Financial planning

Advice practices that implement the new professional and ethical standards and improve financial advice standards could eventually have to pay less levy to fund ASIC. ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a Perth-based responsible executive from providing financial services for three years....

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned life/risk advisers not to try to beat the commissions and clawback implementation....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft has reinforced the need for the regulator to have more powers to ban miscreant financial serv...

Life/Risk

Behavioural economics sits at the heart of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new example statement of advice for life/risk advisers....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fixed a regulatory anomaly which was unjustifiably hindering full AFSL-holders in delivering tax-exempt advice....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the financial services licence of Gallop International Group, formerly known as Weather Pro Exchange....

Policy & Regulation

The industry superannuation funds want the breach reporting regime to be toughened claiming bank licensees are exploiting deficiencies and still paying commissions to adv...

Funds management

The collapse of MFS Group and the Premium Income Fund had its corollary in the Queensland Supreme Court today with the five most senior executives suffering long disquali...

Policy & Regulation

The government has reappointed Cathie Armour as a full-time member of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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