The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has called for a radical escalation of the proposed prohibition on unsolicited telephone sales, urging a ban on all unsolici...

The major financial services regulators need to be comprehensively audited to ensure they are actually delivering value for money in the work that they do reflecting the ...

There is a strong demand for aged care advice, according to a recent Australia Securities and Investments survey tracking consumer demands, calling into question if advis...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced the dismantle of an online fraud syndicate which resulted in alleged thefts from superannuation and sha...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton, has claimed the regulator simply didn’t have enough pages to explain the implications of end...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has acknowledged the likelihood of an advice gap, particularly for lower income earners, but is looking to superannua...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that there are at least two matters emanating from the Royal Commission which may result in criminal char...

Superannuation funds will also be exposed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s enhanced search warrant powers according to the explanatory materials ...

The Federal Government has tabled exposure draft legislation which would give the Australian Securities and Investments Commission phone tapping and search warrant powers...

Ruth Stringer has been appointed by Herbert Smith Freehills to its Australian financial services team in Sydney....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched civil action in the Federal Court over the telephone sale of life insurance which saw sales agents offer...

Mike Taylor writes that in the absence of a definitive methodology for ensuring clients are rebated the grandfathered remuneration which would otherwise have gone to fina...

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...