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Financial planning

Gold Coast financial planning and property management group hit by ASIC penalty for false and misleading advertising....

Financial planning

Employers and businesses must attain verification at the source for educational and employment background of advisers for the national register of advisers to be reliable...

Life/Risk

ASIC is urging insurers to improve their consumers’ understanding of what their no-claims discount scheme offer....

Equity Trustees Limited and Como Financial Services have each paid penalties of $20,400 over “potentially misleading” information....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Queensland based financial adviser from providing financial services for five years for misleading conduct and inappropriate advice....

Financial planning

ASIC may take enforcement action against individual financial planners who provided advice on complex products after 10 licensees have been involved in taking corrective ...

Financial planning

ASIC banned former Provident Capital MD from managing corporations for five years and providing financial services for seven years....

Financial planning

ASIC has released updated guidelines regarding Enforceable Undertakings (EU) stating it would provide further details as to the level of compliance attained by groups iss...

Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator is not yet facing a rush by accountants to be licensed....

Accounting

A Gold Coast accountant will serve an eight month sentence by way of an intensive correction order, after pleading guilty to misleading ASIC....

Financial planning

Macquarie Group will compensate 80 clients, or around 13 per cent of cases reviewed in its client remediation work, but more may follow....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the licence of a margin foreign exchange business for making frequent changes to one of its user platforms, but failing to document them. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has flagged concerns about social media posts by a Bitcoin miner, announcing its intension to list on the ASX, despite not having lodged documentation with the regul...

Financial planning

ASIC warns retail investors against the risks of dealing with unlicensed binary options providers singling out Opteck.com in specific warning. ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Equities Limited has completed the two year term of its enforceable undertaking reducing it adviser numbers in Macquarie Private Wealth by 25 per cent....

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5 months 2 weeks ago

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

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 3 weeks ago

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

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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