AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is in consultation with Timbercorp scheme growers pushing for the appointment of a responsible entity to 14 sc...

Financial planning

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....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is pursuing changes to inject more transparency into securities lending....

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Financial planning

A verification count by City Pacific has found that Balmain Trilogy did not receive the required 50 per cent of votes by unitholders of the City Pacific First Mortgage Fu...

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Editorial

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...

Financial planning

The Taxation Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo has confirmed the existence of new weapons in the ATO's armoury for scrutinising high-worth individuals....

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Financial planning

The term 'financial adviser' should be restricted to those who are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Financial planning

Some researchers have expressed concern over a request from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that planners send samples of product research used to fo...

Financial planning

A media report yesterday that accused financial planners of being under investigation by ASIC was false, with the people in question believed to be marketing themselves a...

Financial planning

Rebate services provider YourShare has said many financial planners are holding themselves out to be purely fee for service when in fact they are charging commissions as ...

Financial planning

Licensing system allowing product providers to hold financial services licences should be investigated....

Financial planning

Planners served notice by regulator but reports of home and office raids incorrect....

Financial planning

Balmain Trilogy has lodged a notice with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under the Corporations Act requiring the regulator to register Trilogy as th...

Financial planning

Some listed property trusts have not disclosed key valuation assumptions in financial reports, according to a recent review by the regulator, while movements in asset val...

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Financial planning

The Bank of Queensland has issued a brief statement confirming it is the subject of an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 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....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

4 weeks 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”....

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