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Reverse mortgages, three years on

... against their property, according to a new survey. The research was conducted by the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) as part of its ongoing monitoring of the sector. Since ASIC first surveyed the market in 2005, the industry has doubled ...

Adviser ban after Westpoint

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned NSW-based financial adviser, Andy Shen-En Chen, from providing financial advice for five years after recommending Westpoint to clients. An ASIC investigation found in between October ...

Liquidnet rollout gains ASIC approval

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Liquidnet Australia has received Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) approval to roll out phase one of its new software that will allow institutions to trade large blocks of equities directly and anonymously with each other. The software ...

Fincorp failure burns 8,000 investors

... "I did but I couldn't understand what he was talking about either." Ng wished the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) did something earlier but admitted she did not even know the regulator existed until it was mentioned in the meeting. ...

Funds address $750m in errors: Deloitte

... calculated by the industry each day and the vast majority will be correct," said the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) commissioner Berna Collier at the time the joint ASIC/APRA Best Practice Guide was published. But in response to the ...

ASIC pleased with insurance industry

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has released a report examining the improvements home building insurers have made to their policies and whether they are providing customers with better access to information about the costs ...

At long last some logic on FSR streamlining

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2006
... amount being advised on is less than $10,000. The proposals also said the Australian and Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will look at recrafting its training requirements as recognition grows that many people are being trained inappropriately. ...

Advice in 2020

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... way to pay for advice based upon Medicare bulk billing." Darren Williams, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's (ASIC) director of compliance for financial services, said, "Consumers would have learned to be more exacting. They will become ...

Accountants to investigate investment scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... members of Intertax or their officers have breached the Corporations Act or the Australian Securities and Investment Commission Act, the keeping of proper books, the identities and nature of investors in the scheme, the use of funds invested in the scheme ...

ASIC and NZ corporate regulator sign cooperation deal

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the New Zealand Companies Office have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work towards greater regulatory cooperation between the two countries. The MOU was signed by the registrar ...