AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been accused of unilaterally and quietly raising the per adviser levy to $1,142....

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Life/Risk

Legislation surrounding the regulation of claims handling may have insurers and related parties look to fall under a single Australian Financial Services License to ease ...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has imposed penalties amounting to $9.15 million on Westpac because of its failure as a licensee with respect to poor financial advice provided by a for...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments commission has cancelled the Australian financial service licence of KP International Group Australia due to resignation of all ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that AMP Financial Planning has been required to stop providing managed discretionary account services....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wanted the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to clearly spell out the sanctions it would impose on adv...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Federal Court case against major insurer, TAL, will test the circumstances and extent to which life insurers can ga...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken Federal Court action against National Australia Bank citing several thousand contraventions with respect to...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the content of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission submission on the adviser code of et...

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Life/Risk

Major life insurer TAL has been taken to court by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on charges relating to issues raised during the Royal Commission in...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has formally acknowledged that some advisers are struggling to obtain professional indemnity insurance, but the regul...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now officially overdue in providing answers to key questions around Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

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Policy & Regulation

Insurance inside superannuation needs a properly resourced code administrator with sanction powers, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry has been urged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to focus more on improving life insurance outcomes for its members....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has investigated 10 superannuation funds in the past four years – nine of them were retail funds....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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