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New appointments in place at ASIC and FRC....
Financial planning
For many years the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been urging the financial services industry to take a greater self-regulatory role in compl...
Financial planning
A series of advertised competitions offering prizes as an incentive to ING superannuants to consolidate their super into ING’s super products is remarkable for both the n...
Financial planning
Australia’s financial services regulators and the Australian Taxation Office will receive additional funding as a result of the Federal Budget....
Financial planning
The president of the so-called Westpoint Investors Group, Graham MacAulay, has written to Federal Parliamentarians accusing the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...
Financial planning
A former director of Progressive Investment Securities has been convicted on nine charges of making false statements under oath to the Australian Securities and Investmen...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has released a checklist of regulatory requirements to assist members when advising clients on superannuation switching....
Financial planning
An unlicensed adviser in Queensland has received a five-and-a-half year jail term for the dishonest use of over $500,000 of investors’ money...
Financial planning
ASIC has been receiving more reports about breaches of the Corporations Act, but has been acting on fewer of them, according to a report by the Australian National Audit ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Sovereign Capital Limited....
Financial planning
A bill that will allow the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to enter into a cooperative audit arrangement with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight ...
Financial planning
A judgement by the Federal Court will make it easier for clients of the Melbourne-based company, Money for Living, to seek legal advice after an announcement last week th...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a Tasmanian manager from providing financial services for fraudulent and dishonest behaviour....
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