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Financial planning

Regulators around the world are still trying to grapple with the unique challenges of regulating the use of mediums like social media and automated advice by intermediari...

Financial planning

The Federal Court has made interim asset preservation orders by consent against former Western Australia-based financial adviser Marion Joan Pearson and Colisa Pty Ltd, f...

Financial planning

A former financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services by ASIC....

Funds management

A review of disclosure to investors by the unlisted property industry has been described as “disappointing” by ASIC....

Financial planning

Queensland-based financial adviser, Thanh Quoc Tu, who misled clients, has been permanently banned from engaging in the provision of financial services by ASIC. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled eight Australian Financial Services licences, after its review of licensees who failed to lodge audited annual statements....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland NV in relation to potential misconduct involving the Austr...

Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Brisbane-based planning business, Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services Pty Ltd....

Financial planning

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....

Superannuation

A Victorian man has been charged with fraud after he allegedly coaxed investors to refinance their self-managed super funds and/or homes to fund his property development ...

Superannuation

A new ASIC report confirms that super fees are not always what they seem....

Superannuation

Both ASIC and the ATO have signalled they are scrutinising the legitimacy of SMSF seminars...

Financial planning

The interim report of the Financial Systems Inquiry has pointed to higher educational standards for planners, a national exam regime and tougher powers for ASIC....

Financial planning

ASIC wants the financial services sector to take the lead in developing standards for the issuance of complex products....

Editorial

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...

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