ASIC
Financial planning
ASIC has permanently banned former Victorian finance broker, Rudy Noel Frugtniet, from engaging in credit activities....
Financial planning
A Sydney woman employed by a company trading as Premium Financial and Retirement Solutions has pleaded guilty to four charges of fraud after an ASIC investigation....
Policy & Regulation
AIOFP has called on the Federal Government to reintroduce an ownership disclosure regime and for the equal prosecution of executives who have overseen poor advice....
Superannuation
Superannuation funds risk falling foul of new legislation due to inconsistent fee and cost disclosure practices, an ASIC report reveals....
Policy & Regulation
The FPA has urged the calling of a national summit to resolve the issues raised in the 61 recommendations of the Senate Committee report....
Financial planning
ASIC has secured an interim order preventing Vault Market Pty Ltd and its director, MD Anamul Amin, from carrying on a financial services business without an Australian F...
Financial planning
ASIC has suspended the licence of Finance Technology Securities (FTS) after concerns it was inappropriately recommending double gearing strategies....
Financial planning
A number of CBA planners have declared their anger at comments made by the FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe....
Financial planning
ASIC has acknowledged the CBA’s new compensation and review processes by reminding the banking group of its ongoing breach reporting obligations....
Editorial
The Government may have moved to “rebalance” FOFA, but bipartisanship remains a forlorn hope....
Editorial
The financial planning industry suffered substantial collateral damage as a result of the collapse of Storm Financial but, as Mike Taylor reports, last week’s Senate Comm...
Financial planning
A former financial planner who is serving a 13-year prison sentence has been permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activity by the A...
Policy & Regulation
Australia has developed a regulatory protection regime for investors which is inferior, according to Paul Resnik. ...
Financial planning
A former WealthSure financial adviser has been jailed after transferring around half a million dollars out of clients’ accounts without their knowledge. ...
Financial planning
Dealer groups and consumers must do their part to surveil the financial advice profession, with ASIC’s resources allowing it limited reign over the “high risk” industry, ...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...