MISCONDUCT

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will make an example of wrong-doers while suggesting that misconduct by some major financial institu...

Policy & Regulation

A previous claim made by Millinium Capital Managers against a former adviser has been referred to the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority and Serious Fraud Office....

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Financial Wisdom advisor Anneliese Ada Willmott....

Life/Risk

Life risk industry veteran, Michael Molesworth, has warned that underwriters and claims assessors need to be subject to more stringent education requirements or risk comm...

Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission will today begin its final round of hearings looking at what caused the misconduct and what can be done to fix those causes....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to the recent adverse publicity around the financial services industry having driven up the level of whis...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared that just because behaviour is lawful does not make it an excuse where consumer detriment is concerned....

Financial planning

The Federal Court has ordered Westpac to pay a $3.3 million penalty for its involvement in setting the BBSW in 2010. ...

Financial planning

Dishonestly using his position to gain benefits in the amount of $800,000 has seen a former Gold Coast financial adviser sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by th...

Financial planning

Victims of Financial Fraud has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to remind him how vehemently the party objected to holding a Banking Royal Commission. ...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is moving to introduce legislation which will have the effect of doubling the criminal and civil penalties which can be imposed against both corpor...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a former AMP financial adviser for five years, after finding that he gave advice which was “well below com...

Policy & Regulation

The Turnbull Government will strengthen criminal and civil penalties for corporate and financial misdeeds, following revelations of staggering misconduct in this week’s R...

Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Services has told the Royal Commission that planners/advisers have accounted for more than a third of serious misconduct cases identified since ea...

Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry will kick off its public hearings on Monday, 12 February....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 2 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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