POLICY AND REGULATION

Policy & Regulation

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Tim Wilson, will this Friday publicly compare the positions of WAM and ACOSS on Labor’s proposed franking di...

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Policy & Regulation

UBS Securities has been slapped with a $120,000 penalty by the regulator’s Markets Disciplinary Panel after it had reasonable grounds to believe that UBS contravened mark...

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Policy & Regulation

The securities regulator has banned Yossef Ashkenazi of Victoria from providing financial services for a period of eight years....

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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....

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Policy & Regulation

The prudential regulator has announced the terms of reference for a review of its enforcement strategy....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian prudential regulator has finalised the standard aimed at combating the threat of cyber attacks....

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SMSF

The regulator has disqualified Oscar Altavilla from being an approved auditor of SMSFs following breaches of independence and auditing standards....

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has banned Spectrum Wealth Advisers’ Gurumukh Singh Mehra from providing financial services for three years after surveillance showed he failed to act in hi...

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Policy & Regulation

A review by the regulator has described delays by financial institutions in reporting, addressing and remediating significant breaches as “unacceptable”....

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Policy & Regulation

The securities regulator said it has taken action to stop several proposed initial coin offerings or “token-generation events” that target retail investors....

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Policy & Regulation

The securities regulator has updated market integrity rules to facilitate the introduction of Chi-X Australia’s new financial product known as transferable custody receip...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Court has handed down its judgment on the contempt findings brought by ASIC against multiple defendants in proceedings concerning binary option trading websit...

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People & Products

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has reduced the length of a banning order made against former Hobart financial planner Troy Williams, that prohibited him from providi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Kiwi regulator’s thematic review on replacement business practices in the insurance industry has a number of important findings for the sector, according to the Finan...

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Policy & Regulation

The investment regulator has imposed conditions on the financial services licence of Aurora Funds Management Limited following the misappropriation of $1 million of inves...

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

16 hours ago
JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

16 hours ago
PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

17 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 3 weeks ago