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Financial planning

An adviser has received a written reprimand from the Financial Services and Credit Panel after failing to meet his CPD requirements, the panel’s first action since June....

Financial planning

ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland has detailed the regulator’s intentions to conduct surveillance on licensees and advisers who are recommending managed accounts, noting a ...

Financial planning

ASIC wants to expand proceedings against Equity Trustees to seek compensation for members following Macquarie’s agreement to pay $321 million over Shield failings. ...

Financial planning

The use of offshore service providers could be exposing clients to potential risks around confidentiality, operational disruption, or effective supervision, ASIC has warn...

Funds management

ASIC has canceled the AFSL of Sydney-based asset consultant and research firm....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned the former CEO of Lighthouse Partners from providing financial services for 10 years after failing to report fees-for-no-service conduct, the second indiv...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator enacted a 50 per cent increase in the number of investigations and a 20 per cent increase in civil enforcement proceedings....

Financial planning

In the wake of a high-profile interim stop order, product downgrades and ASIC’s increasingly watchful eye, Freshwater Wealth founder Roger Perrett has suggested the shine...

Funds management

ASIC has enacted civil penalty proceedings against Fiducian Investment Management Services alleging it breached its duties as a responsible entity and engaged in misleadi...

Financial planning

Licensees have been urged by ASIC to ensure their advisers’ FAR records are updated, as ASIC’s latest estimates find more than 3,000 advisers could be unable to provide a...

Financial planning

ASIC has clarified the outcome of whether it will “name and shame” AFSLs over their reportable situations and internal dispute regimes following feedback from industry st...

Financial planning

Macquarie’s $321 million remediation package will provide welcome relief for investors after a “difficult and challenging” experience, according to the FAAA’s Phil Anders...

Financial planning

A former financial adviser who stole $4.4 million from his family and friends to feed gambling debts has been permanently banned by ASIC....

Funds management

Less than one week after imposing an interim stop order on the La Trobe Australian Credit Fund, the order has been lifted after the firm made improvements to its target m...

Financial planning

Macquarie Investment Management is to fully remediate all of its superannuation fund members the entirety of what they had invested in the Shield Master Fund, totalling $...

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