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Financial planning

Former Radar Iron Limited and Armada Capital director, Ananada Kathiravelu, has been banned from providing financial services for three years following market manipulatio...

Financial planning

Paul Kevin Bennetts has been banned from providing financial services for six years after asking a compliance officer to complete his Australian Institute of Company Dire...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator will be working with regulatory technology entities for its Business Research and Innovation Initiative, dealing with the challenges of corporate ...

Financial planning

While adviser numbers continued to decrease this week, it was at a slower pace than anticipated as many licensees are yet to report their data to the corporate regulator....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is consulting with interested parties on updating guidance for the naming conventions of exchange traded produ...

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 ...

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5 months 1 week ago

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

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

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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