AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Life/Risk

Treasury looks at different rules for insurance and investment advice....

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Financial planning

A former Commonwealth Financial Planning representative has been banned by ASIC for seven years for giving inappropriate advice and engaging in false or misleading conduc...

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Financial planning

AMP and AXA AP have completed all the necessary processes to begin trading as one company on 31 March....

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Superannuation

The superannuation market offers more choice than ever for consumers looking to build a retirement nest egg, but exercising the right strategies can make a world of diffe...

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Financial planning

A Perth-based property funds responsible entity has had its AFSL cancelled by ASIC....

Financial planning

Century Funds Management has failed to replace Opus Capital as manager of the troubled Opus 21 property fund, after an insufficient number of unitholders voted on the mat...

Financial planning

Opes Prime boss Laurie Emini will stand trial in the Victorian Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to ASIC charges....

Editorial

With the Gillard Government believed certain to impose client 'opt in' arrangements on financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that some serious questions are being asked ...

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Policy & Regulation

Academic claims ASIC got fiduciary duty wrong and really meant ‘best interests’....

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Funds management

The popularity of hedge funds seems to have drawn the attention of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which is seeking to provide further disclo...

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Financial planning

A former Storm Financial representative has been banned from providing financial services for four years for making false and misleading statements and providing inapprop...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Services has commissioned a report examining a proposed takeover of the Opus 21 property fund by Century Funds Management – a report Opus ha...

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Financial planning

The consequences of breaching fiduciary duty under the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms could be much steeper than first thought, with the pos...

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Financial planning

Sonray chief executive Scott Murray pleads guilty on multi-million dollar charges....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Trevor Wayne Carll of Port Pirie from providing financial services for acting dishonest...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 1 week ago

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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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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