ASIC

Financial planning

Centrelink recipients charged more for consumer leases

ASIC finds consumer leases market is failing low income earners and can be a very expensive household goods option....

Financial planning

ASIC urges planners to update register information

ASIC has urged advisers and licensees to update details on its Financial Adviser Register (FAR) or be hit with new fees and charges....

Superannuation

ASIC changes so complex you need a whiteboard

Proposed ASIC class order changes to fees and costs disclosure are so opaque one industry group has called for whiteboards and an industry roundtable to dissect them....

Financial planning

Financial institutions hit with double whammy

Regulators like ASIC and APRA were requesting their overseas counterparts to help them scrutinise financial institutions, a law firm said....

Financial planning

Credit provider banned over ex-wife’s activities

A NSW-based tax and credit agent has been banned from providing financial services for four years after signing off on false documents created by his ex-wife....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC wants penalties that fit crime

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, wants access to a penalty regime which can be scaled to fit the magnitude of crimes....

Policy & Regulation

Leave stockbrokers out of ASIC cost recovery

The stockbroking industry should not be targeted in ASIC’s cost recovery program as most complaints are against financial planners. ...

Financial planning

Spring FG denies link to banned planner

Spring FG has denied any direct links to a planner permanently banned by ASIC....

Financial planning

ASIC imposes additional conditions on Advamode

ASIC has imposed licensing conditions on a Queensland-based financial services firm after identifying concerns over its ability to effectively carry out their supervisory...

Financial planning

Former SMSF adviser gets permanent ban

ASIC bans a former financial adviser after contravening financial services law when advising SMSF clients....

Policy & Regulation

Make user-pays equitable says FPA

The FPA supports user-pays funding for ASIC but only if it is equitable across the industry....

Financial planning

Bank planners in ASIC sights

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that bank planners and vertical integration are on the enforcement agenda for 2015/16....

Policy & Regulation

User pays ASIC model to hurt consumers

Financial services users will be hit with increased costs if the Government pursues a ‘user pays’ funding model for ASIC, bankers warn....

Policy & Regulation

Govt seeks stakeholder views on ASIC funding model

Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has launched a public consultation to gage stakeholder views on the potential introduction of an industry funding model for ASIC....

Accounting

IPA urges members to act on limited licensing

The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has urged its members to heed ASIC’s warnings about time running out to pursue the new limited licensing regime....