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ASIC plans to have more ‘cops on the beat’ as it targets the financial advice sector....

Life/Risk

ASIC’s upcoming report on risk insurance churn is likely to lead to further debate on removing commissions but would overlook the related costs of advice according to Syn...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....

Financial planning

Regulator claims Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) had “very poor” record keeping and lack of detail in its advice documents....

Financial planning

ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...

Accounting

A Melbourne accountant has been jailed for five years and eight months for operating 21 unregistered managed investment schemes relating to property development....

Editorial

The financial services regulators have sent a clear message to the life/risk industry about its past mistakes. ...

Financial planning

Law firm suggests simple licensing compliance is the best way of avoiding undue regulatory attention....

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has delivered a solid full-year result with its financial planning troubles making little impact in terms of comments or provisioning....

Financial planning

Your Super Accountant has paid a $2040 infringement notice penalty in relation to potentially misleading statements about the cost of setting a self-managed superannuatio...

Financial planning

Esuperfund Pty Ltd has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices in relation to “false or misleading” online advertising....

Financial planning

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....

Financial planning

ASIC has imposed new conditions on the AFSLs of CommFP and Financial Wisdom....

Financial planning

Treasury issues ‘Statement of Expectations’ to ASIC and other Australian regulators, asking them to adhere to its broad policy framework....

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