When it comes to hedge funds, the watchful gaze of regulators seems never to be far behind, as Janine Mace writes. ...

Australia’s two key financial services regulators, ASIC and APRA have moved a step closer to concluding their actions around the collapse of Trio/Astarra and, in doing so...

Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....

Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...

SPAA supports ASIC on property spruikers but maintains that, properly-advised, property is a legitimate SMSF investment....

ASIC wants people to be better informed about the implications of establishing an SMSF before it occurs. ...

National Australia Bank is looking to raise around $750 million through the offer of convertible preference shares....

Member firms of the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals will undergo AFSL compliance reviews to identify and remedy potential issues....

ATO confirms to IPA conference that it intends reviewing around 11,000 SMSFs....

ASIC wants investors to be better informed before establishing SMSFs but denies it will pursue prescriptive new disclosure requirements....

ASIC has signalled a crackdown on unlicensed property spruikers who advocate self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investment without the proper authority...

A Melbourne mortgage broker has been banned for five years and his company’s Australian credit licence was cancelled after breaching credit laws....

FPA canvasses two-way working relationship between professional bodies such as itself and ASIC....

ASIC has rejected a Money Management report of a union submission citing a culture of bullying and harassment....