AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

The current exemption of financial planners from the tax agent services regime has been extended to 30 June, 2012....

Financial planning

Collapsing institutions and a loss of wealth have combined to give the margin lending industry a bad reputation. Angela Faherty explains why increased legislation and a m...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would like to see a better model used for pricing individual risk that would potentially bring down the costs of professional ind...

Editorial

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) no doubt believes it is doing a good job – and it is certainly operating within the guidelines laid down by ASIC – but i...

Financial planning

Many in the industry feel that the legislation targeting margin lending has only served to make investors more fearful of the practice. Ashley McIntyre reports....

Financial planning

Two Victorian men have been charged with multiple counts of insider trading while acting as brokers for Citigroup Wealth Advisors in Perth, while a third man has also bee...

Financial planning

The former managing director of Burns Philp Trustee Company has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on fraud charges, following a lengthy cat-and-mouse game with the Aus...

Funds management

A former Macquarie Bank fund manager has been sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment for front running....

Editorial

ASIC, hard-pressed for funding and resources, has embarked on a costly exercise aimed at determining the quality of retirement advice at a time when the underlying rules ...

Editorial

Sydney-based planning principal, Greg Cook, questions whether advice being given to consumers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is really in the pub...

Financial planning

Directors have been warned of the need for more transparency on related party transactions....

Financial planning

A Victorian man has been arrested and charged in connection with the collapse of the Dollarforce group, which raised more than $24 million dollars from investors through ...

Financial planning

Not-for-profit superannuation fund trustees have been warned that if they do not agree on fund governance guidelines they risk having them imposed by the Government....

People & Products

Clearview has appointed Chris Robson as its general counsel and company secretary, effective 4 April, 2011....

Financial planning

Several financial planners have called for due process to be instituted to give advisers the ability to appeal against a determination brought against them by the Financi...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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