ASIC

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former Anne Street Partners Queensland financial planner from providing financial services for dishonest conduct....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of liquidated firm, Aquaint Capital, the responsible entity for Aquaint Income Fund....

Financial planning

Breach reporting standards by the Big Four banks and AMP have been found wanting with an ASIC report finding institutions were failing to report adviser breaches on time....

Financial planning

ASIC has commenced proceedings against Wealth and Risk Management (WRM), and related companies Yes FP and Jeca....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the mortgage broking industry suggests it is facing its own FOFA moment, particularly where commissions a...

Life/Risk

The corporate regulator would soon request life insurers to provide them with claims outcome data as part of their 2017 life insurance industry review, Peter Kell said....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched a financial literacy resource to build the financial capacity of Indigenous students....

News

ASIC will soon request claims outcome data from life insurers as part of their 2017 industry review, according to Peter Kell, Deputy Chair of ASIC. ...

Life/Risk

ASIC has examined 60,000 documents as part of its CommInsure investigation and will deliver its findings by the end of the month....

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants more power to deal directly with insurance claims handling issues....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted enforceable undertakings from Westpac and ANZ to address inadequacies with their wholesale FX businesses....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants more evidence before allowing responsible entities to directly negotiate fees with individual retail investors...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned former Morgan Stanley adviser, Andrew Panayiotides, from providing financial services....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has remade two legislative instruments and also repealed one ahead of their expiry in April....

Financial planning

An Interprac Financial Planning authorised representative has closed his website after ASIC flagged concerns over misleading advertising....

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