AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION
Financial planning
It’s the end of the road for beleaguered financial planning group Storm Financial. The regulator has succeeded in its quest to have the group formally wound up without an...
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has undertaken to spearhead the formation of a new industry-wide framework to rate the risk, return and liquidity of ...
Financial planning
Despite all that has occurred Storm Financial and its founders still have the support of some former clients and associates....
Financial planning
Also criticises the transfer of the Financial Literacy Foundation to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Financial planning
The regulator has signalled it will be visiting superannuation fund trustees to better understand how they are operating....
Financial planning
Regulator cracking down on false rumours that take advantage of market turmoil to affect market share prices....
Policy & Regulation
The spreading of company tax debt is 'a time bomb waiting to go off', according to Hall Chadwick accountants and business advisers partner Richard Albarran....
Financial planning
One of the financial planning offshoots of Storm Financial, Victorian Families, may soon be placed in liquidation, while there are concerns there may be claims made again...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) says use of the term 'adviser' should be restricted and more closely regulated, differentiating between financial advisers and...
Editorial
So the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) intends to conduct another financial planning shadow shopping exercise some time after June 30, this year –...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has applied to the Federal Court to place Storm Financial in liquidation in a move prompted by a 'misleading' memo ci...
Financial planning
With the global financial crisis giving rise to increasing numbers of financial scams, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it is clamping d...
Financial planning
The administrators of Storm Financial will today deliver a report to the group’s creditors and the regulator that will detail its financial circumstances and advise on wh...
Financial planning
ASIC's deputy chairman, Jeremy Cooper, has flagged the regulator’s intention to take an increasing role in the education of retail investors, but should this be the regul...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issues none too subtle warning to advisers that they need to lift their game on investment choices....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...