PETER KELL

Life/Risk

ASIC has permanently banned a NSW insurance broker from providing financial services after he was convicted of fraud....

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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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Superannuation

Omniwealth has paid a $10,200 penalty after ASIC issued an infringement notice that had concerns its website had potentially misleading claims....

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Financial planning

A financial planning practice within Charter Financial Planning has paid $10,200 penalty after ASIC found it made misleading representations in an article on its website....

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Financial planning

The fall-out from NAB’s planning issues may be adoption of a recommendation for a compulsory planner reference-checking regime....

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Life/Risk

ASIC is urging insurers to improve their consumers’ understanding of what their no-claims discount scheme offer....

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Financial planning

Serious questions asked about whether NAB appropriately filed breach reports relating to 37 planners with whom it parted company....

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Financial planning

ASIC has told a Senate committee it has asked NAB for detals of whistleblower complaints including the names of 37 terminated planners....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Queensland based financial adviser from providing financial services for five years for misleading conduct and inappropriate advice....

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator is not yet facing a rush by accountants to be licensed....

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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

A former financial adviser has been jailed for defrauding more than 150 of her clients over two decades. ...

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Financial planning

A Bundaberg-based building society has agreed to review its lending practices after ASIC raised concerns that it relied too heavily on information from a finance broker....

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Life/Risk

QBE will ensure all future communications relating to escalated complaints and dispute resolution will have the company’s branding rather than an external legal firm’s, u...

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Funds management

ASIC plans to probe the mortgage lending standards of the Big Four, particularly honing in on interest-only loans. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 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 ...

3 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 5 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

3 weeks 3 days ago

A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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