AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

BENJAMIN LEVY reports on the growing use of reverse mortgages to shore up diminishing client wealth....

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Editorial

The nature of managed investment schemes has come under close scrutiny in the recent Environinvest case, writes James Lonie....

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Editorial

Reverse mortgage products are attracting a new breed of strategic senior borrowers who are proving the industry’s naysayers wrong, argues MARTIN LYNCH....

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Editorial

The financial services industry needs to be alert to the fact that the Government is tightening regulatory control of the industry and its markets – not in a legislative ...

Financial planning

Completes last of 39 proceedings brought against Primelife since 2004....

Financial planning

The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is gauging the industry's reaction to the possible implementation of a two-tier advice system of independent and affiliated...

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Financial planning

The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has acknowledged the conflicting positions of Treasury and ASIC on financial planning....

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Financial planning

Twelve criminal charges of fraud laid by ASIC following investigation into the affairs of Perpetual Acquisitions Pty Ltd and Robina Properties (Qld) Pty Ltd....

Financial planning

The Parliamentary Joint Committee has been told that the absence of tax deductibility with respect to fee-for-service advice is creating a market distortion....

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Financial planning

Today is officially the last day advisers can use Statements of Additional Advice as part of their advice process....

Financial planning

ASIC warns that Australians facing financial stress are falling prey to schemes promoting illegal early access to superannuation....

Financial planning

IFSA has called for full tax deductibility of financial advice at an inquiry hearing today into financial products and services before the Parliamentary Joint Committee o...

People & Products

Professional Investment Services has appointed the final member of its new-look management team, with Kelly Wyman joining as group general manager, services....

Funds management

Samuel David Saunders of Orange in New South Wales, a former director of several companies, has pleaded guilty to three counts of obtaining money by false or misleading s...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s submission to the Ripoll Inquiry has raised the stakes for the future of the financial planning industry but has al...

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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 ...

3 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 5 days ago

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

3 weeks 3 days ago

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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