AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION
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While research houses view their pay model as the centrepiece of their offering, fund managers are more concerned about timely and digestable results, writes Jason Spits...
Financial planning
The Federal Court has made interim asset preservation orders by consent against former Western Australia-based financial adviser Marion Joan Pearson and Colisa Pty Ltd, f...
Financial planning
A former financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services by ASIC....
Funds management
A review of disclosure to investors by the unlisted property industry has been described as “disappointing” by ASIC....
Financial planning
Queensland-based financial adviser, Thanh Quoc Tu, who misled clients, has been permanently banned from engaging in the provision of financial services by ASIC. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has cancelled eight Australian Financial Services licences, after its review of licensees who failed to lodge audited annual statements....
Financial planning
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland NV in relation to potential misconduct involving the Austr...
Financial planning
ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Brisbane-based planning business, Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services Pty Ltd....
Financial planning
FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....
Superannuation
A Victorian man has been charged with fraud after he allegedly coaxed investors to refinance their self-managed super funds and/or homes to fund his property development ...
Superannuation
A new ASIC report confirms that super fees are not always what they seem....
Superannuation
Both ASIC and the ATO have signalled they are scrutinising the legitimacy of SMSF seminars...
Superannuation
ASIC warns on the one stop shop SMSF business model and the re-emergence of commissions....
Financial planning
ASIC points to so far modest take-up of limited AFSL and the emergence of concerning trends around RG 146 completion and professional indemnity....
Financial planning
The interim report of the Financial Systems Inquiry has pointed to higher educational standards for planners, a national exam regime and tougher powers for ASIC....
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