AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

Superannuation funds should be prepared to tell members when opting out insurance inside superannuation is in their best interests, according to the Australian Securities...

Financial planning

Suggestions that robo-advice will be sufficient to meet the needs of those earning $80,000 are well off the mark, according to Investment Collective managing director, Da...

Policy & Regulation

A key parliamentary committee chairman has challenged the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether it was trying to scare people with its self-managed ...

Financial planning

Advisers receiving Adviser Service Fees via Colonial First State’s superannuation funds are facing an early cut-off unless clients specifically opt in....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has strongly urged the removal of the general advice exemption for financial product issuers because it undermines best interests....

Superannuation

Running a SMSF is $8,900 cheaper than what ASIC believes, according to the SMSF Association....

Policy & Regulation

Nicholas James Ellis has been sentenced for making false or misleading statements to obtain money from clients and fraudulent misappropriation of client funds....

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has identified eight red flags which would make it ‘extremely unlikely’ for an investor to gain any advantage from us...

Policy & Regulation

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton, has pointed to regulatory concerns about the consolidation of investment funds and the consequen...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Beenleigh-based adviser, Ian Haisman, from providing financial services for seven years....

Financial planning

A little talked about Australian Securities and Investments Commission project around the adviser best interests duty has been identified as substantially increasing red ...

Financial planning

Max Kiattisak Eung has been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to obtaining financial advantage by deception of $166,500....

Life/Risk

CommInsure has been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for offering to sell life insurance products via non-compliant unsolicited phone calls...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged a ‘sense of urgency’ be applied by companies to their non-financial risks, including compliance risk. ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

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