ASIC

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has laid 21 charges against Melbourne-based property developer Mark Stanley....

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has criticised the corporate regulator for not going far enough in what is already being perceived by the industry as too harsh an assessment of fi...

Financial planning

A Queensland man, who allegedly operated a high-yield investment scheme and used it to dishonestly obtain $270,000, has appeared in court on seven charges brought by ASIC...

Financial planning

ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....

Superannuation

Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...

Superannuation

Accountants could face fines of up to $220,000 if they provide misleading advice on self-managed super funds....

Accounting

An Adelaide accountant who set up and promoted managed investment schemes without a financial services license has been banned from providing financial services for three...

Financial planning

A wealth creation scheme that claims to be able to generate returns of at least 2 per cent every trading day is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Invest...

Financial planning

Hundreds of financial planning practices could incur huge fines or lose the right to operate their businesses if they fail to produce overdue 2004 annual accounts and aud...

Financial planning

A former director of Sydney-based Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, is back in Court after being committed to stand trial on 40 charges under the Crimes ...

Financial planning

A Sydney-based finance broker has felt the wrath of the corporate watchdog for a second time after being convicted in the Central Local Court of managing a company while ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has had another win after successfully taking claims to the Supreme Court against the operator of a failed solicitor’...

Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has given a clear message that it is getting tough on licensing after it banned a Victorian man from the financial services industry for five years...

Financial planning

Ten financial services professionals were jailed, 64 advisers were banned - 19 of them permanently - and 51 civil proceedings were taken against 118 people or companies, ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

2 weeks 2 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

3 weeks ago

ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

3 weeks 5 days ago