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ASIC secures win against HCF Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... terms regime was expanded to include insurance contracts, arising from a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation, and Financial Services Industry.

CSLR warns adviser levy will balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... Finity, is expected to be lodged with parliament when it resumes sitting early next year. Some of the common themes of misconduct arising from the provision of personal financial advice the CSLR observes include the inappropriate linking of SMSF and ...

Hanson backs Dixon Advisory inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... country, helping Australians achieve their financial goals. We do not have the financial capacity to underwrite the misconduct of large companies, and nor should we," Abood said. ASIC took action on Dixon Advisory in 2021, alleging 51 instances of bad ...

HESTA lowers insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... score of less than one, in addition to engaging in any "severe business ethics controversies" such as fraud, executive misconduct, corruption scandals, money laundering, anti-trust violations, or tax-related controversies.

BUSSQ fights back against regulatory imposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... "unnecessary and potentially impractical" licence conditions imposed by APRA, which were sparked by allegations of serious misconduct within the CFMEU and concerns about its potential impact on the super fund. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy ...

ASIC scraps Libertas' AFSL for unpaid compensation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2024
... the latter grappled with a string of bad financial advice-related claims dating back several years. One example of misconduct involved ASIC's permanent banning of Ezzat Daniel Nesseim for doctoring documents. He served under Libertas' licence ...

Misconduct cases soar at CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has revealed there were 2259 substantiated cases of misconduct for the year, up from 1122 the previous year. Of those, 18 were cases of sexual harassment or other sex-based harassment, two were a result of bullying ...

APRA reprimands Cbus, BUSSQ over governance issues

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... on fitness and propriety processes and fund expenditure management has intensified following allegations of serious misconduct in the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), including claims of underworld figures and former bikie ...

AMP Super trustee has additional licence conditions removed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... during its ongoing prudential supervision of AMP Super, along with matters that emerged during the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation, and Financial Services Industry. The prudential regulator said that the directions and ...

ASIC to launch new criminal investigation team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... Director of Public Prosecutions. "We will continue to invest in data and technology to hunt and detect all forms of market misconduct. As our financial landscape evolves, we will expand our market cleanliness work to capture private markets and products ...