General advice may help you reach a broader audience, but personal advice provides a better way to meet client needs and manage compliance risk, writes Steve Davison....

Westpac has been ordered to pay penalties of $113 million for compliance failures in banking, superannuation, wealth management and insurance....

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services Pty Limited....

It is well-known that Outsider is always up for a celebration, so he is breaking out the champers for an unusual anniversary noted by the Senate Estimates committee. ...

Liam Cormican explores what factors might have driven a higher proportion of people to fail the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s first financial adviser...

It is well-known that Outsider is always up for a celebration, so he is breaking out the champers for an unusual anniversary noted by the Senate Estimates committee....

Data from ASIC has revealed the numbers of advisers on the Financial Adviser Register who are still yet to pass the financial adviser exam with only three sittings remain...

The outcome of research by the corporate regulator into access into advice is unlikely to be published publicly and will instead form part of the Quality of Advice Review...

ASIC commissioner, Cathie Armour, is to leave the corporate regulator after nine years next month. ...

Westpac-subsidiary BT Funds Management has been fined $20 million for incorrectly charging commission payments to certain superannuation fund members....

Temporary measures allowing financial advisers to provide a Record of Advice rather than a Statement of Advice will cease from 15 April after two years, the regulator has...

Superannuation trustees have revised their policies after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission found a lack of oversight and control measures in relation ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken action against Macquarie Bank for failing to adequately monitor and control transactions by third parties, ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Melbourne-based adviser Mark Christopher Babbage from providing financial services or engaging in credit a...