PETER KELL
Financial planning
A broker will refund $477,900 to 2000 consumers after the corporate regulator found it had charged consumers a brokerage fee when it was not allowed to....
Life/Risk
Poor advice relating to life insurance is a systemic issue and not epithet work of a few rogues, according to ASIC....
Financial planning
ASIC has launched legal action against Make it Mine Finance for violating consumer credit laws, including responsible lending duties....
Financial planning
ASIC has issued a $42,500 penalty on payday lender Abaz Pty Ltd for failing to get the necessary account statements from consumers....
Life/Risk
The Minister for Finance and Acting Asistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann will address a Money Management breakfast traversing key issues....
Policy & Regulation
The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....
Financial planning
ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell warns against ‘gaming’ the general advice regime....
Financial planning
ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell has confirmed intra-fund advice is on the regulator's surveillance radar....
Financial planning
As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...
Life/Risk
Suncorp has finished remediating its life and general insurance businesses after breaches that saw the insurer pay back $23 million to customers. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has ordered NAB to tweak claims on its home loan rate advertisements, as part of its crackdown on false and misleading advertising. ...
Financial planning
ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....
Life/Risk
The corporate regulator is not seeking any changes to PI insurance requirements for advisers stating that ‘tinkering’ would not deal with problems related to claims or di...
Funds management
The corporate regulator will consider model portfolios as a suitable investment under best interest duties if they do not adopt mechanistic processes on selecting assets ...
Financial planning
A South Australian finance broker has pleaded guilty to forging a memorandum of mortgage, to defraud $170,000 from an investor....
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