ASIC
Funds management
It is alleged the sponsored link advertisements promoting Mayfair debenture products were misleading or deceptive....
SMSF
Charterhill director, George Nowak misappropriated $1.2 million in self-managed superannuation fund monies to fund a lavish lifestyle. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has created some time and space for advisers by delaying, for now, its work on life insurance advice and conflicted g...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator is only putting the brakes on terminating grandfathered commissions because consumers have started to realise the cost of advice has escalated due...
Financial planning
FS Securities, Your Super Life, and MyPlanner Australia have all had their Australian financial services licenses cancelled....
Expert Analysis
As Australia moves under lockdown, ASIC needs to ease the regulatory burden for advisers unable to meet face-to-face with clients, writes Shannon Bernasconi....
Expert Analysis
We all need to keep our vigilance high during these extraordinary times, but perhaps nowhere is our attention more warranted than over money and data, writes Dean Martin....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fired a shot over the bows of real estate agents who have been providing ‘advice’ to hard-pressed tenants about a...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was only conducting five investigations relating to industry funds compared to 16 relating to retail funds. ...
Financial planning
It was well known that a consortium led by the FPA and AFA was seeking authorisation of as a code monitoring body but the Australian Securities and Investments Commission...
Superannuation
Superannuation funds have received a letter from the two financial services regulators telling them to give top priority to having sufficient liquidity to make early rele...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that entities who sell funeral expenses facilities will be required to hold an Australian financial ser...
Financial planning
Listed firms that have been suspended for up to 10 days will be allowed certain ‘low doc’ offers such as rights offers, placements, and share purchase plans, even if they...
Financial planning
The message from advisers to clients is ‘don’t crystallise your losses’, while the message from a Money Management survey of advisers to the Australian Securities and Inv...
Financial planning
Trevor William Martin has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment to be served through an intensive corrections order for dishonestly obtaining $208,000 of client f...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...