ASIC

Superannuation

Superannuation members need to regularly check their balance given the scams and fraud activity surrounding the early release of super scheme, a super body has said....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has framed intra-fund advice in the same context as scaled advice....

Policy & Regulation

The failed pursuit of Westpac over responsible lending has cost the Australian Securities and Investments Commission nearly $1.9 million before it even accounts for Westp...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has hired expert advisers to help solve the problems of making financial advice more accessible and affordable amid t...

Policy & Regulation

Government agencies, including the Australian Federal Police, have been alerting the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to rorts around early release supera...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...

Superannuation

Seven super funds have been classifying new members as ‘smokers’ by default and over 5,000 members will receive $3.6 million in compensation....

Policy & Regulation

The Australia Financial Complaints Authority may have ‘paused’ processing complaints against insolvent financial firms, but the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Financial planning

With a mutual history within Credit Suisse, the exit of Alex Wade has seen AMP chief executive, Francesco De Ferrari lose one of his own....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that AMP Limited is facing multiple legal/regulatory issues – citing between “5 and 50”....

Financial planning

AFCA has welcomed ASIC’s assessment that continuing credit contracts cause consumer detriment and that the regulator’s product intervention powers should be utilised....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been asked to provide a formal written explanation of the status of intra-fund advice amid heated questioning by ...

Financial planning

Former financial adviser and director of CFS Private Wealth, Graeme Miller, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for dishonest conduct. ...

Financial planning

Faced with at least six weeks of Level 4 lockdown, financial advisers in Melbourne need regulatory relief around opt-in and other key client interactions....

Policy & Regulation

The chair of a key Parliamentary Committee has raised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s errors within its controversial SMSF factsheet among errors t...

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