AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Superannuation

Newly appointed AMP SMSF executive Peter Burgess explains that assessing suitability and explaining risks is the key to good SMSF advice....

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The regulator should work to extend the scope of its financial literacy strategy to include an appropriate focus on retirement funding, particularly in relation to senior...

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Financial planning

ASIC uses Macquarie’s Storm settlement to challenge premium handed to those who fund class actions....

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Editorial

ASIC was right when it issued a warning to financial services licensees to ensure they have “robust recruitment processes” in place when appointing people who have previo...

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Financial planning

Payday lender Nimble Australia has changed its advertising following ASIC concerns it was potentially misleading....

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Financial planning

Clients with mainly cash holdings not enough to sway ASIC on planner PI requirements....

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Financial planning

As it continues its discussions with industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the commencement of upcoming disclosure benchmarks...

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Financial planning

Specialist accounting software provider MYOB has announced a new online portal for small business services that it claims will help accountants enhance their client relat...

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Financial planning

A former Bell Potter Securities adviser has been sentenced to five years jail with a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years for fraudulent conduct that cost investor...

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Financial planning

The award of a premium to Storm Financial victims who bankrolled part of a class action against Macquarie Bank could encourage self-funded group litigation, a Brisbane si...

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Financial planning

Former Lonsec Stockbroking Services managing director Norman John Graham has been convicted on two charges of insider trading and fined $30,000....

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Financial planning

Charitable investment funds act like banks so they should be regulated as such, according to ASIC....

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Money Choice director Matthew George had his PIPA membership suspended days after the regulator banned him from the industry and cancelled his firm’s credit licence....

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Financial planning

The Salisbury Group (TSG), a planning business with 50 planners, has gone into administration following the recent closure of Australian Financial Services (AFS). ...

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Financial planning

A British Virgin Islands-based company has consented to Federal Court orders preventing it from selling shares and providing financial services in Australia....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

3 weeks 1 day ago

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

3 weeks 6 days ago

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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