ASIC

Superannuation

Financial planners are already subject to the best interests duty, so any additional requirements with respect to SMSF advice would be redundant, according to the FSC....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft expresses concern at the time it takes to get matters before the courts....

Superannuation

A Senator has asked ASIC to look into the potential conflict of interests in the establishment of a new media outlet fully financed by three industry super funds....

Funds management

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft says pursuing compensation similar to Storm might better be left to the “class action industry”....

Superannuation

Warning self-managed super funds (SMSFs) that they are not entitled to compensation is too “simplistic” and needs to factor in all financial assistance available....

Superannuation

Linda Elkins has been named Superannuation Executive of the Year in Money Management/Super Review’s Women in Financial Services Awards 2013. ...

Financial planning

Planners within Peter Daly’s new Beacon Group are being encouraged to sign up to a defence trust under the auspices of AIOFP....

Superannuation

SPAA CEO Andrea Slattery has shut down the notion that SMSF trustees should have a competency test, deeming it elitist....

Superannuation

The two major industry super fund lobby groups have issued warnings on the costs of establishing an SMSF....

Financial planning

Former senior ASIC executive claims regulator’s task has shifted while the organisation has stood still....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft says the regulator has been examining all the submissions to the Senate Inquiry so ASIC can do a better job....

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has pointed to new research to highlight fee disparity between SMSFs and industry super funds....

Financial planning

Is scaled advice a game only the big guys can play? Malavika Santhebennur explores some of the things that might be stopping smaller financial planning practices from pro...

Editorial

'Does ASIC have the power and the resources to fulfil its task as corporate watchdog?' is the question the Australian Senate is asking as part of its review of the regula...

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has canvassed the possibility of a professional association regulating the industry alongside ASIC but, as Mike Taylor writes, many wil...

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