AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Life/Risk

Choosi’s parent company Hollard Financial Services has agreed to change the way it promotes funeral insurance under the Real Insurance brand, as a result of concerns rais...

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Superannuation

ASIC may have to explain to a Parliamentary Committee why, when its resources are stretched, it has expended effort reviewing the operations of an independent statutory b...

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Financial planning

ASIC seeks industry input on a shift to higher knowledge and skills levels for planners. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...

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Financial planning

Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....

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Editorial

The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...

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Editorial

When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...

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Financial planning

A former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to 10 charges of providing false loan applications to lenders totaling almost $3.8 million....

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Superannuation

Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...

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Financial planning

ASIC has released an information sheet on limited AFSLs, explaining in further detail their definition and scope....

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Financial planning

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

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Financial planning

ASIC launches Federal Court action over moves around sale of the Premium Income Fund....

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Superannuation

After ASIC refused to provide an exemption to corporate super specialists under the FOFA reforms' conflicted remuneration provisions, the Corporate Super Specialist Allia...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former Lifestyle Group chief executive Murray John Priestley from providing financial services for ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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