ASIC

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has remade two legislative instruments and also repealed one ahead of their expiry in April....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

Financial planning

ASIC has proposed the use of its statutory power to modify provisions of the National Credit Act to prohibit the use of flex commissions in the car financing industry....

Funds management

Private equity funds have urged ASIC to address “flawed implementation” of new fee disclosure requirements....

Financial planning

ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings against Westpac for breaching home-loan responsible lending laws....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

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ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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