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Superannuation

The superannuation fund is the first licensee to have a civil penalty imposed for failing to report breaches to the corporate regulator since its new penalty powers were ...

Superannuation

The corporate regulator has noticed an increase in marketing recommending Australians to switch to self-managed superannuation funds that invest in crypto, and has warned...

Policy & Regulation

Greater oversight from the corporate regulator of financial and compensation arrangements will reduce unpaid determination risk and ensure the CSLR operates as a genuine ...

Financial planning

The cost to sit the financial adviser exam will be higher than initial estimates as it moves to being run by the corporate regulator and any Standard 3 amendment responsi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ended 2021 with a raft of fines, bannings, licence cancellations, and a bankruptcy notice....

Financial planning

The financial advice industry is finishing the year with a loss of 2,189 advisers, however the worst is yet to come, according to Wealth Data....

Funds management

The corporate regulator’s chair has argued that while it could have acted more quickly and could have published a media release more energetically on the Sterling case, i...

Financial planning

The pathway will allow financial advisers who have 10 or more years of full-time experience in the last 12 years to only complete a tertiary level unit on the code of eth...

Financial planning

Former authorised representative of ANZ-owned Millenium3, Melinda Scott, has been convicted of managing a corporation whilst being disqualified from providing financial s...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has obtained interim orders from the Federal Court to freeze the assets of Ascent Investment and Coaching, as funds may have been raised and used ...

Financial planning

Australasia Wealth Services and Management director, James Feng, was accused by the corporate regulator for authorising the making of a false or misleading statement....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has alleged OnePath incorrectly charged over $4 million in fees to more than 18,000 fund members when it was not entitled to do so....

Financial planning

The regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Sydney-based firm Premier Wealth Management Financial Services and banned two of its directors....

Financial planning

Tyson Scholz is suspected in carrying on a financial services business and promoting courses and seminars on Twitter and Instagram without a licence....

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has signed a new memorandum of understanding with the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency regarding alternative investment funds....

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 3 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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