ASIC

Superannuation

Manoj Abichandani has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by ASIC after providing deliberately misleading statements....

Life/Risk

ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....

Financial planning

ISA claims ASIC’s fee disclosure requirement update leaves consumers in the dark on fees charged by ‘for-profit’ superannuation funds run by banks. ...

Financial planning

Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....

Superannuation

ASIC is investigating reports of property developers offering advisers commissions to encourage SMSFs to invest in their projects....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted EUs from three J.P. Morgan foreign financial services providers for failing to comply with disclosure requirements of ASIC’s exemptions....

Funds management

The assets of three investment companies have been frozen, following an investigation by ASIC surrounding the improper disclosure of publicly solicited funds....

Funds management

ASIC has consulted on addressing ‘sunsetting’ class orders on horse racing syndicates and horse breeding schemes....

Policy & Regulation

ANZ will pay approximately $13 million in compensation after failing to accurately apply bonus interest to customers’ Progress Saver Accounts for a number of years. ...

Life/Risk

A Melbourne-based property developer will spend a minimum of three years behind bars for his role in misappropriating more than $750,000 of investors’ funds....

Policy & Regulation

GE Money has changed its promotion of personal loans and debt consolidation loans after ASIC found it to be potentially misleading....

Financial planning

A former Perth-based financial adviser has been permanently banned from the financial services industry over her conduct in advising SMSF clients....

Financial planning

Product intervention powers are a step in the right direction for ASIC in dealing with complex financial products, the regulator believes....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator supports robo-advice but also acknowledges problems such as meeting best interests duty and compensating for bad advice....

Superannuation

The Federal Court has imposed a $25,000 penalty on Superannuation Warehouse Australia following ASIC action over false and misleading advertising....

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