KAREN CHESTER

Funds management

ASIC has highlighted examples of problematic marketing in managed funds and expects to make a series of regulatory outcomes in the next few months....

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Financial planning

Consumer group CHOICE says the timeshare industry is now on notice following the Federal Court’s first-ever decision against a timeshare provider for failing to ensure fi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has commenced surveillance into the marketing of managed funds following recent enforcement against fund managers mis...

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Financial planning

The Australian Finance Industry Association has opposed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposal to lower the consumer compensation threshold from ...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator believes its guidance along with penalties will help accelerate fee-for-no service remediation payments as there is still $3.7 billion left unpaid...

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Policy & Regulation

Ultiqa Lifestyle Promotions is being sued by the corporate regulator for providing financial advice that was not in customers best financial interest....

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has added 12 examples in response to feedback received from its consultation on the prohibition of hawking financial products. ...

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Policy & Regulation

To reduce the reporting burden, the corporate regulator is allowing licensees to batch upload reports that derive from a single root cause as part of the new breach repor...

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Life/Risk

OnePath Life is remediating up to $35 million to over 40,000 customers who were sold life insurance policies over the phone between 2010 and 2016....

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Financial planning

The Federal Court says James Mawhinney, or entities controlled by him, has a high likelihood to engage in similar conduct if not prevented by the court from doing so, fol...

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Financial planning

The cost of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority functions may yet add to the ASIC levy paid by financial advisers....

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has found companies in the Mayfair 101 Group made deceptive or misleading debenture advertising, following proceedings brought by the corporate regulato...

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully moved against Mayfair 101 and has pointed to several actions underway targeting fund managers....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned investors of a rise in imposter bond scams. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Documents provided to a Parliamentary Committee have revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission paid a top tier legal firm for an independent opinion o...

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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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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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