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Financial planning

Complex retail products will come under the ASIC's scrutiny due to poor market returns and growth in the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector....

Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released information to the public in relation to its approach to handling tip-offs, complaints, informati...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has questioned ASIC over its failed move against Fortescue Metals....

Financial planning

Financial planning groups will lose the presumption of innocence where volume rebates are concerned....

Financial planning

Credit Suisse's Australian equities arm has paid a $52,000 penalty to ASIC after a glitch in its automatic order processing system was found to have breached "the efficie...

Financial planning

A review of ASIC's GFC short-selling ban has identified the benefits and the costs - and the fact the regulator would likely do it again....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned two former planners for three years and six years, respectively....

Financial planning

The recently announced industry standard for defining a hedge fund presents a catch-all concern to unaware fund managers....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) has been forced to pay $50,000 to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as penalty for its involvement in a mislea...

Funds management

The recently announced industry standard for defining a hedge fund presents a catch-all concern to unaware fund managers....

Life/Risk

Insurance brokers have told Money Management Vero Insurance representatives have alerted them to a price hike of up to 50 per cent to Vero's professional indemnity insura...

Superannuation

ASFA urges government to change direction on illegal early release on SMSFs, claiming the problem has diminished....

Funds management

ASIC has set new disclosure requirements for hedge funds, following industry consultation and the Parliamentary Joint Committee report into the Trio Capital collapse....

The Industry Super Network claims high frequency trading is benefiting a small subset of investors at the expense of super funds....

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