A Sydney financial planner who has worked with former clients of Storm Financial in recent months has pointed to an aggressive sales culture within the failed group, incl...

Dealer groups are concerned about the need to change their Australian Financial Services Licences as a result of the new rules around margin lending....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has opened up consultations on its proposed new margin lending regime at the same time as reminding advisers about th...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued class order relief that will allow super fund members to receive advice from their fund....

Managed investment scheme specialist FEA has asserted that it is not the subject of an ASIC investigation and that the regulator is probing an external AFSL holder....

When the National Australia Bank (NAB) late last month announced its acquisition of Aviva’s wealth management business, its documentation lodged with the Australian Secur...

It is remarkable how many people were surprised by the comments provided to a Parliamentary committee by senior executives of the Australian Securities and Investments Co...

The WA Financial Services Forum has written to ASIC requesting it publish any reports from its Quality of Advice project in the 'interests of transparency'....

Over the past 21 years Queensland financial planner Martin Kerrigan has had nearly 30 face-to-face meetings with promoters of agribusiness managed investment schemes, des...

ASIC investigation reveals insurance broker used funds intended for obtaining income protection insurance policies for personal use....

Thanks to the Rudd Labor Government's first Cabinet reshuffle financial services now has a seat at the Cabinet table but, as Mike Taylor reports, it remains for the indus...

The consumer credit and margin lending space is changing, so be prepared, write SONNIE BAILEY and MELANIE SHERRIN....

The payments made by product providers and investment platforms - otherwise known as volume bonuses and shelf space fees - are beginning to be questioned, but rebates at ...

National law firm Slater & Gordon is looking at a possible class action on behalf of investors in Great Southern, and one of the key aspects of a possible case will be wh...