ASIC

Financial planning

A Budget user-pays approach to financial services regulation could hit licensee and other planning costs....

Financial planning

The AFP and ASIC have charged an ABS public servant and a NAB employee with insider trading netting $7 million....

Life/Risk

Businesses that sell general or life insurance, or offer credit as an ‘add-on’ insurance offering, should be on guard as they come under ASIC scrutiny, a law firm warns....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC should outsource PDS approvals to an independent research panel funded by planner levy. ...

Financial planning

ASIC considers allowing managed investment schemes to be automatically registered, with non-compliant schemes regulated by stop-orders....

Financial planning

A Sydney finance executive has been charged with insider trading after allegedly operating on insights from a close friend who was employed by a large financial services ...

Superannuation

With the increased scrutiny of self-managed super funds (SMSF) from the regulator, the soon-to-be-introduced penalty regime for trustees and the increasing diligence of S...

Financial planning

NAB Wealth will refund customers after it found some of its customers had received incorrect compensation after an investment income error on its Navigator platform....

Financial planning

Advisers have been encouraged to incorporate limited managed discretionary accounts (MDAs) into their suite of services before the corporate regulator moves. ...

Financial planning

ASIC band former Melbourne credit representative from undertaking credit activities for five years....

Life/Risk

Virgin Money has been fined more than $30,000 for misleading advertising related to its promotion of a life insurance product....

Financial planning

ASIC has rebuffed suggestions HFT is a problem and stated a ‘lack of hysteria’ should not be mistaken for complacency....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the licence of a subsidiary of the collapsed Banksia Financial Group but will continue investigation...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Parramatta-based insurance broker WD Gelle Insurance and Finance Brokers Pty Ltd....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the licence of a CBA-owned advice group, the second in a month, following a request from the bank. ...

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