ASIC

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is investigating a range of investment switches undertaken by trustees and executives of major superannuation funds. ...

Financial planning

Enforcing the law against advisers is all part and parcel of building consumer confidence in the financial planning industry, according to the Australian Securities and I...

Financial planning

A link has been uncovered between the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Consumer Advisory Panel and a key submission regarded as highly supportive of the...

Financial planning

A designation of work by two Griffith University academics as “consultancy/commercial research” has raised questions about the status of a 2018 submission to the Financia...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s ban on Perth self-managed super fund adviser Wayne Blazejczyk has been upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....

Financial planning

Warren Acworth has been charged with offenses relating to false or misleading statements and fraud after an investigation by the corporate regulator....

Policy & Regulation

In the first criminal prosecution for offending of this kind, Mark Kawecki has been convicted and fined $30,000 for dishonest conduct relating to artificially satisfying ...

Financial planning

The submission, that has not been made live by the authority, matches material obtained by Money Management earlier this year that sought to understand the meaning of “in...

Financial planning

360 Capital has made an overt plea to Evans Dixon shareholders to allow it to over-ride the current board by taking the business private citing complexities including cur...

Financial planning

Industry submissions regarded as fundamental to the final shape of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics have been made visible on the FASEA...

Editorial

The standing aside of Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton, points to fundamental issues with respect to the regulator....

Features

The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...

Outsider

Outsider knows what it’s like to be treated like a mushroom. He is not unfamiliar with being kept in the dark and being fed execrable information....

Outsider

At the time of writing, Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton remains stood aside awaiting a Treasury-instigated independent review of the...

Policy & Regulation

The Queensland property developer has been found guilty of six counts of self-managed super fund fraud totalling $345,000, having initially arrested back in 2017....

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