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Govt proposes shorter PDS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
The Federal Government has released draft regulations from the Corporations and Financial Services Regulation Review showcasing a simplified corporate and financial services regulatory system, potentially resulting in abbreviated product disclosure ...

Advice already in client's best interest: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... must be disclosed, said Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive officer Jo-Anne Bloch. "Firstly, the Corporations Act already requires financial planners to give advice which is appropriate to clients' needs. Second, financial planners have ...

LGSS paints $400m in property green

... policy. "Particularly overseas organisations. They're far more [environmentally] aware than we are, especially large corporations because they have their own SRI policies," said Churchill. LGSS plans to invest at least $200 million in the next couple ...

FTSE launches climate change criteria into SRI indices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... bring positive impacts, both economic and environmental." FTSE said during 2006 they consulted with more than 100 corporations, fund managers, non-government organisations and private investors to develop their criteria. They also consulted with The ...

Regulators discuss streamlining some supervision operations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... APRA-regulated status." The regulators also said there was a range of reporting duplication depending upon which part of Corporations Law you review. "ASIC and APRA will explore the extent to which reporting requirements can be consolidated for jointly-regulated ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... the businesses, Mark Hughes of Newcastle, George Angelopoulos and Helen Gougas, both of Melbourne, had breached the Corporations Act in operating an unregistered business, carrying on a financial services business and providing financial services without ...

Family banned by ASIC and AFSL revoked

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... providing financial advice unsupervised and signing another adviser's name on statements of advice, breaching the Corporations Act. ASIC's deputy executive director of enforcement, Allen Turton, said incomplete disclosure or information on statements ...

Tassie investment schemes wound up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... by SMS Advising Group, SMS Administration Group and its sole director, Barbara Cavanough, in contravention of the Corporations Act. The court also ordered the companies themselves be wound up. In May Cavanough was banned from providing financial advice ...

ASIC clearing guidlines will segment the service chain

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review found that they fall under the financial services licensing and Corporations Law disclosure provisions. However, while the review is expected to force around half of the major clearing houses in the ...

Clearing houses need to be licensed: ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... superannuation clearing houses and electronic payment facilities are ordinarily financial products for the purposes of the Corporations Act because they are facilities through which non-cash payments can be made. "Accordingly, in most cases, ASIC expects ...