ASIC

Financial planning

A Queensland company falsely representing that it managed $6.9 billion for investors and was affiliated with the Financial Services Council has been penalised for false a...

Financial planning

ASIC commissioner, Alan Kirkland, has told Money Management that licensees and financial advisers could be in breach of the law and face civil penalties if they fail to m...

Financial planning

Following statistics that thousands of financial advisers are yet to complete their financial adviser registration, ASIC has agreed to extend the deadline. ...

Financial planning

Money Management collates the recommendations of major associations and how they would like the financial advice exam to change in the future following consultation....

Policy & Regulation

With several financial services firms looking to implement AI into their business, the federal government is examining introducing mandatory guardrails to ensure it can b...

Financial planning

Almost 6,000 financial advisers have just two weeks to register with ASIC if they wish to continue to provide advice with the FAAA warning “a lot is at stake” if they rem...

Financial planning

The US Securities and Exchange Commission may have approved Bitcoin ETFs, but financial advisers in Australia will still face restrictions on advising on them....

Financial planning

A proposal for ASIC criminal trials to be introduced to the Federal Court has received backlash from the Law Council of Australia, which argues the judges lack sufficient...

Financial planning

The FAAA expects to see a reduced fee to sit the financial adviser exam once the proposed changes are implemented, with the current cost sitting steep at $1,500 per attem...

Financial planning

Four directors of Endeavour Securities and Linchpin Capital Group have been penalised by the Federal Court for multiple failings on a registered managed investment scheme...

People & Products

Money Management would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and looks forward to bringing you all the latest news in 2024. ...

People & Products

As the year comes to a close, Money Management has collated the top 10 most read stories of 2023 – from super fund performance to financial advice reforms....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has banned the former sole director and chief financial officer of Brisbane-based Acquire Strategic Advisers over misleading and deceptive conduc...

Superannuation

ASIC has sentenced former director Mudasir Mohammed Naseeruddin over four years imprisonment for ‘egregious conduct’ and dishonestly obtaining client funds from six inves...

Financial planning

A Gold Coast financial adviser who guaranteed his clients annual 8 per cent returns has been permanently banned from providing any financial services....

 

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

11 hours ago
JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

12 hours ago
PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

12 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 3 weeks ago