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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