The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last week released its consultation paper Future of Financial Advice: Approval of codes of conduct for exempti...
Many financial advisers are avoiding structured products in a bid to maintain simplicity, transparency and liquidity in their clients' portfolios....
Specialist lenders mortgage insurer Genworth has entered into a partnership with Lifeline to highlight the impacts of financial stress on families....
The Boutique Financial Planning Principals' Group (BFPPG) will not be submitting its own code of conduct to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for appro...
The 2004 class order issued under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) managed discretionary account (MDA) policy needs to be reviewed to bette...
Mike Taylor writes that codes of conduct are only effective when those who sign up genuinely appreciate the consequences that follow a breach....
ASIC is seeking penalties against the unlicensed operators of more than 12 offshore managed investment funds, which were found to comprise a single unregistered managed i...
Rapid growth of some financial services licensees has caused regulator concern due to many of them lacking support systems for larger numbers of advisers....
There is no reason why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should not approve a code of conduct for a single licensee or dealer group, says Minter...
The chairman of ASIC, Greg Medcraft, has signalled his desire for the regulator to adopt a more proactive stance, effectively eschewing the approach of one of his predece...
The operators of three unlicensed financial services businesses have had their bank accounts frozen and been prevented from carrying on their activities after the Austral...
Shadow shops are comparable to taking a car off a production line and asking a panel how well it will drive, according to head of Lifeplan Funds Management Matt Walsh....
ASIC's 2011/12 annual report has outlined the amount of surveillance and enforcement action the regulator completed in the financial advice sector in the past year....
ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft has announced an internal taskforce which will look at the failure of Banksia....
Genworth has partnered with Lifeline in its Stress Down Day initiatives to tackle the negative effects of financial hardship and mortgage stress on families....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...