AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

The two major industry super fund lobby groups have issued warnings on the costs of establishing an SMSF....

Financial planning

Former senior ASIC executive claims regulator’s task has shifted while the organisation has stood still....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft says the regulator has been examining all the submissions to the Senate Inquiry so ASIC can do a better job....

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has pointed to new research to highlight fee disparity between SMSFs and industry super funds....

Editorial

'Does ASIC have the power and the resources to fulfil its task as corporate watchdog?' is the question the Australian Senate is asking as part of its review of the regula...

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has canvassed the possibility of a professional association regulating the industry alongside ASIC but, as Mike Taylor writes, many wil...

Financial planning

Former AFS adviser Gabriel Nakhl has been permanently banned from providing financial advice after entering into an enforceable undertaking....

Financial planning

Lawyer advises licensees to get ready to change their dispute resolution systems, with ASIC now requiring them to act quicker....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank is calling for the introduction of a financial planner passport scheme, similar to the one operating in the United States. ...

Superannuation

Two bodies representing industry super funds have called for improvement in the quality of advice provided to clients, questioning some of the drivers behind the growth o...

Funds management

ASIC confirms new MDA guidelines likely in 2014....

Editorial

When it comes to hedge funds, the watchful gaze of regulators seems never to be far behind, as Janine Mace writes. ...

Editorial

Australia’s two key financial services regulators, ASIC and APRA have moved a step closer to concluding their actions around the collapse of Trio/Astarra and, in doing so...

Financial planning

Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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