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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has updated its criteria for foreign collective investment schemes (FCIS) offering products into Australia and...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is continuing to pursue Macquarie Towns Financial Services director John Michael Higgins, after yesterday call...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will crack down on shoddy financial reporting to ensure accounting standards are met as a key focus in its 200...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) warns ignorance is no defence for holders of Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSLs) that fail to ensu...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned two West Australians for providing financial advice after the pair were caught operatin...

Financial planning

The Federal Court in Brisbane has prevent the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund from offering any services or advice involvement in a scheme illegally promoti...

Financial planning

A former director of the troubled hospitality industry Employees Productivity Award Superannuation Fund has been sentenced to three years jail-term by a Queensland Distri...

Financial planning

A former Godfrey Pembroke financial adviser has pleaded guilty in the Tasmanian Supreme Court to embezzling millions of dollars of client investment assets to fund his ou...

Financial planning

A former Securitor Financial Group and Financial Wisdom adviser has been committed to stand trial over allegations of dishonesty and improper behaviour stemming from an A...

Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Lucy as chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for the next thr...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has netted its fourteenth promoter of the failed Wattle Scheme following the sentencing of a Brisbane-based di...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) will walk away from...

Financial planning

Private Portfolio Managers (PPM) will launch its listed investment company PPM Investments on March 1 after lodging its bid to offer the product with the Australian Secur...

Financial planning

The ‘very poor’ ratings received by some dealer groups in the ACA/ASIC shadow shopping survey has led them to rethink how they operate. BEN ABBOTT investigates....

Financial planning

Some say Family Law is boring – but not when the likes of Jodee and Maxine Rich are involved. NABIL WAHHAB reports....

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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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