PETER KELL

Financial planning

Payday lender Cash Stop Financial Services (Cash Stop) will refund a total of $14,000 to more than 650 consumers following an investigation by the Australian Securities a...

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Financial planning

ASIC could roll-out a national adviser competency exam for $300, linking it to a register of licensed advisers. ...

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Financial planning

Greg Medcraft says financial planning needs to undergo further cultural change, as the sector remains one of the riskiest regulated by ASIC. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC Chair Greg Medcraft says no financial services regulator can stop corporate failures without onerous compliance regimes. ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from former director of AIE Fiduciary Services (AIE) Manish Babul...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is continuing its crackdown on false advertising in traditional and non-traditional media, fining a finance broker $2...

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned broker for three years after submission of false applications...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Sydney mortgage broker and real estate agent Hyuk Hwang from engaging in credit activities for thre...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has raised concerns with TAL Direct over its advertising of its funeral insurance....

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Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) affirms ASIC’s seven-year ban on a Wollongong financial planner from providing financial services....

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Editorial

Throughout 2013, ASIC executives repeatedly used AAA Financial Intelligence as an example of how not to run a financial planning dealer group....

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Editorial

The Coalition signaled early that one of its first priorities if it won Government at the 2013 Federal Election would be 'Son of Wallis' – essentially an update of the Fi...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has moved to stamp out misleading terminology that has led some pensioners to believe they are earning a highe...

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Funds management

Almost half the advice on structured products lacked on compliance, the regulator said after reviewing 50 SOAs....

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Financial planning

Mortgage broking house Mortgage Choice forks out $30,000 in fines over false advertising....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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