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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that it may ramp up its surveillance of financial planning groups to coincide with tough new regulations o...
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Financial planning groups in regional areas will face a stricter program of regulatory spot checks by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after th...
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The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...
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Advisers selling Term Allocated Pensions (TAPs) have been warned they may be putting themselves in the firing line of future litigation because of the higher commissions ...
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Three agents of offshore internet currency exchange businesses have been shut down by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after they were found to be ill...
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MacarthurCook Funds Management and WH Souls Pattinson and Company will commence accepting offers from investors this week and next ahead of scheduled public listings of f...
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RetireInvest has rounded off this week’s flurry of activity surrounding its business with the announcement of a second exclusive advice deal, this time with the Commercia...
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A Melbourne financial planner has been sentenced to five years and three months jail after pleading guilty in the Victorian County Court to five counts of fraud relating ...
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The relationship between product providers and research houses has appeared on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) radar with new anti-conflict ...
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The RetireInvest dealer group has been given a clean bill of health by KPMG, removing the enforceable undertaking put in place in February last year by the Australian Sec...
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Two operators of a Brisbane-based investment scheme have been sentenced to two of the biggest custodial sentences for defrauding investors in recent times after the pair ...
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Telephone investment frauds are reaching epidemic proportions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission reporting a sharp rise in the number of complaints...
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The founder of a Gold Coast-based firm responsible for running a series of wealth creation seminars has consented to orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland that preven...
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National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...
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Former Grosvenor Securities representative Robert Andrew Street awaits sentencing in the County Court of Victoria after pleading guilty to fraud charges to the value of $...
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