ENFORCEABLE UNDERTAKING

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an EU from HSBC for potentially giving poor advice to clients on retail structured products without collecting sufficient information and considering th...

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Superannuation

CMH Financial Group is under an enforceable undertaking after ASIC found the firm to be giving SMSF advice that was not in their clients’ best interest....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has accepted an EU from Barakah Properties following concerns on how it raised funds to build an Islamic School in Melbourne. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted EU from Sino Investment Services and its sole director after concerns over its compliance with financial services laws....

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Funds management

ASIC has accepted EUs from Bell Potter and one of its institutional stockbrokers after he was found to have revealed confidential client information to a funds management...

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Accounting

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from a liquidator at an Adelaide-based accounting firm after he failed to adequately investigate and document findings....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted EUs from three J.P. Morgan foreign financial services providers for failing to comply with disclosure requirements of ASIC’s exemptions....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an EU from a former Millennium3 representative, and an AMP representative father-son duo following concerns over their compliance with the law. ...

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Financial planning

Macquarie has completed its Enforceable Undertaking with ASIC but its compliance bill has quadrupled to $413 million and is forecast to continue rising....

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Financial planning

Gold Coast financial planning and property management group hit by ASIC penalty for false and misleading advertising....

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Financial planning

ASIC has released updated guidelines regarding Enforceable Undertakings (EU) stating it would provide further details as to the level of compliance attained by groups iss...

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Financial planning

Macquarie Group will compensate 80 clients, or around 13 per cent of cases reviewed in its client remediation work, but more may follow....

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Financial planning

Macquarie Equities Limited has completed the two year term of its enforceable undertaking reducing it adviser numbers in Macquarie Private Wealth by 25 per cent....

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Financial planning

ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank makes clear that former CommFP clients retain access to its Open Advice Review program irrespective of changing advisers. ...

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