JOE LONGO

Financial planning

ASIC chair Joseph Longo says the regulator is conducting a review into the use of artificial intelligence in financial advice as it explores how to prevent AI harm to con...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has urged organisations to implement greater cyber security management, with an “alarming” number of firms not managing third-party or supply chai...

Policy & Regulation

As three directors face multiple criminal charges for their involvement in Sterling Income Trust, four years after it collapsed, Money Management reflects on Sterling’s t...

Financial planning

ASIC’s annual report has detailed its enforcement progress achieved during FY2022-23 and where it is focusing its financial advice work going forward....

Policy & Regulation

With commissioner Danielle Press to depart ASIC next month, the Treasurer has appointed three new commissioners to the corporate regulator....

Policy & Regulation

The Labor government has hit back at the Senate Economics Reference Committee’s request for evidence from ASIC as it is an independent regulator and suggested it provide ...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has been called out by the Senate economics reference committee for undermining the process of an inquiry into its investigation and enforcement actions by submittin...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC staff need to consider if they are taking on enough risk in choosing cases to litigate, according to chair Joe Longo, prompting a Senate committee to ask if it shoul...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has increased the number of staff dedicated to cryptocurrency, despite it being unregulated, as high-profile collapses like FTX highlight the dangers of the asset cl...

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Financial planning

ASIC chair, Joe Longo, has told advisers there is little the corporate regulator can do to improve the financial adviser exam, despite negative feedback from candidates....

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Outsider

It is well-known that Outsider is always up for a celebration, so he is breaking out the champers for an unusual anniversary noted by the Senate Estimates committee. ...

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Financial planning

As assets in environmental, social and governance funds reach $3 billion, the regulator is conducting a review into ‘greenwashing’ in funds. ...

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Features

The examples of failed managed investment schemes have reopened the question around the Government’s proposed model for a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, writes Oksan...

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Financial planning

ASIC has acknowledged criticism that it failed to do enough to stop the failure of Sterling and said it will be testing its intervention powers in the future under the De...

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Funds management

The corporate regulator’s chair has argued that while it could have acted more quickly and could have published a media release more energetically on the Sterling case, i...

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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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