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The Financial Services and Credit Panel has made a written direction after advice regarding non-concessional contributions meant an individual was forced to withdraw over...
Financial planning
ASIC has been granted permission to shut down almost 100 websites running investment scams, with the Federal Court describing how its victims were “fattened like pigs to ...
Financial planning
ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....
Financial planning
ASIC was active in the first quarter of 2025 with several financial adviser bannings and court action, while the FSCP also handed down outcomes to advisers....
Financial planning
ASIC has banned a Queensland adviser from providing financial services for five years after failing to provide appropriate advice that was in the best interest of his cli...
Financial planning
The Federal Court has made orders freezing the assets of an individual allegedly associated with marketing Shield and First Guardian Master Funds. ...
Financial planning
The FAAA and other industry groups have responded to ASIC’s proposed relief under the reportable situations regime, making several recommendations to reduce “unnecessary ...
Funds management
ASIC is launching a new portal for Australian Financial Services licensees in May to ease the process of applying for a licence. ...
Financial planning
The regulator has convened multiple sitting panels of the FSCP regarding AFSL breach reports which have identified poor superannuation advice from financial advisers....
Financial planning
A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...
Funds management
The corporate watchdog is suing FIIG Securities for alleged failures in its cyber security measures, describing the matter as a “wake-up call” to all licensees....
Financial planning
A former Northern Territory financial adviser has received a seven-year ban from ASIC, having been convicted of supplying dangerous drugs and receiving or possessing the ...
Financial planning
The Federal Court has made interim orders to freeze the assets of a managed investment scheme, its responsible entity, and a director....
Financial planning
The Federal Court has frozen the assets of two individuals, Ferras Merhi and Osama Saad, for their connections to the troubled Shield Master Fund. ...
Funds management
ASIC has warned Australian retail investors there “will be product failures” in the private credit space as the assets are untested for a large-scale stress event, but ha...
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