AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION
Financial planning
Wealth creation seminars and internet scams involving exotic tropical locations have been singled out by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as featuring...
Financial planning
Many a financial planner would have spat out their coffee last June when news of the biggest potential shake-up of financial planning education landed on their desk. A sm...
Financial planning
Unlicensed providers may soon be allowed to offer generic online financial calculators if proposals outlined in a consultation paper released yesterday by the Australian ...
Financial planning
Residents of north Queensland have been warned they need to be more vigilant against investment scamsters, following a spate of incidents involving millions of dollars of...
Financial planning
There is a degree of confusion by some practitioners in the financial planning and accountancy fields as to the ability of an accountant to give advice to a client of the...
Financial planning
An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been placed in receivership by order of the Federal Court....
Financial planning
A Queensland man, who allegedly operated a high-yield investment scheme and used it to dishonestly obtain $270,000, has appeared in court on seven charges brought by ASIC...
Life/Risk
The corporate regulator has released a consultation paper detailing proposals to allow general insurers to operate without a licence and in a separate initiative, has pro...
Financial planning
The credibility of the financial planning industry will once again be put under the microscope following the release of a report which claims advisers are overwhelmingly ...
Financial planning
ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....
Financial planning
The Securities Institute of Australia has engaged advisers concerned about their obligations under super choice, releasing a series of products intended to help them hand...
Financial planning
Proposed changes that could shorten the length of disclosure documents and bring much needed relief from burdensome Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements have been endor...
Financial planning
Self-managed superannuation funds are booming and, with employee choice just around the corner, things are starting to heat up in this sector....
Superannuation
Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...
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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...