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Financial planning

Financial advisers receive the second-highest expenditure in ASIC’s financial services and wealth division, according to documents, ahead of investment managers and super...

Funds management

The corporate regulator has outlined its philosophy in dealing with greenwashing and the by-product of greenhushing, having already reported around 35 of such interventio...

Financial planning

Appearing at Senate estimates, ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court has claimed the $7.2 million penalty issued to Dixon Advisory was made to send a “deterrent message” as the f...

Funds management

The corporate regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings against Westpac for failing to respond to 229 customer hardship notices within the required time limit....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC staff need to consider if they are taking on enough risk in choosing cases to litigate, according to chair Joe Longo, prompting a Senate committee to ask if it shoul...

Superannuation

The superannuation fund is the first licensee to have a civil penalty imposed for failing to report breaches to the corporate regulator since its new penalty powers were ...

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Financial planning

In an unprecedented move, the corporate regulator has launched multiple civil penalty proceedings again the bank for matters including fee-for-no-service for deceased cus...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has said it will bring back the use of the enforceable undertakings....

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Financial planning

Ahmed Saad will serve a nine-month prison sentence for illegally allowing clients to withdraw superannuation funds from 2016 to 2017. ...

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Life/Risk

The corporate regulator alleges MLC Life Insurance, in some instances, failed to pay life insurance benefits, notify on premium rises or refund premiums, amongst other br...

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Superannuation

The Federal Court has ordered Colonial First State Investments Limited to pay a penalty of $20 million for misleading communications with members. ...

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Policy & Regulation

If the corporate regulator had funds awarded by penalties put into the financial advice levy it could look like a new revenue stream aimed at players with deep pockets....

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Financial planning

The first penalty of its kind, the penalty relates to allegations from the corporate regulator in 2019 that the big four bank issued defective fee disclosure statements t...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has found it is liable for failing to supervise former adviser John Doyle, who became a case study during the Royal Commission....

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Financial planning

BT Funds Management and Asgard Capital will pay $3 million after the two entities made false and deceptive conduct to over 400 customers. ...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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

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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 ago

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

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