AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

As the self-managed super fund industry continues to grow rapidly, Andrew Yee explains how to ensure your clients effectively manage their SMSFs....

Life/Risk

An insurance representative who failed to bank client money in a trust account has found himself banned for 10 years....

Financial planning

Consumers, as well as FPA members, will soon be able to access a 'name and shame' register of banned members....

Financial planning

State Trustees ordered to pay $13.5 million compensation to Westpoint investors....

Financial planning

The country's biggest financial services licensees are scrambling to compile significant amounts of data ahead of this Friday’s deadline for the regulator’s industry audi...

Financial planning

Victorian woman who operated Ponzi scheme via a mortgage broking business pleads guilty to six counts of deception....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Working Group is close to finalising the streamlined disclosure documentation attaching to margin loans, superannuation and managed investment sche...

Financial planning

ASIC is concerned at the tenor of bank advertising around term deposits, particularly where dual pricing implications arise....

Financial planning

The activities of a former Brisbane company secretary dealing in mezzanine finance earn him more jail time....

Financial planning

More than 1,000 investors have found themselves tied up in property development schemes that have been identified as illegal....

Financial planning

Regulatory changes to the way Australia’s security market is supervised are being discussed, with ASIC releasing a consultation paper relating to proposed changes to its ...

People & Products

Three new appointments have been made to the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board....

Funds management

Former Westpoint director Norm Carey is planning a return to property development but says he doesn't plan on using retail funds, according to an article in The Australia...

Editorial

Have the recent issues raised by Trio Capital (formally Astarra/Absolute Alpha) created a mini-Madoff affair? Dominick McCormick investigates....

Editorial

Mike Taylor looks at the ACCC's report on NAB's and AMP's bids for AXA Asia Pacific, as well as industry consolidation in general....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 2 weeks ago

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

5 months 3 weeks ago

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

7 months 3 weeks ago

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

1 week 5 days ago

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...

3 weeks 5 days ago

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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