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Sophisticated investor register launched

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... efficiency and integrity of Australia's consumer financial services system by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Financial System Inquiry. In developing Cygura, Sophisticated Access worked closely with ASIC to identify ...

Share trader jailed over $260,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... of Public Prosecutions prosecuted the matter following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC commissioner John Price said: "Jones acted with complete disregard to the law and now must deal with the consequences ...

Asteron ends business relations with 134 rogue advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... will not win," he said. While Asteron has not reported these advisers to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Hawke said: "the regulator absolutely knows. They have lists of people who are the highest lapsers and the highest producers ...

ASIC pays commissioners $2.9m in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The five top executives at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will receive a total salary of $2.9 million for 2014, about $10,000 less than in 2013. The ASIC annual report did not match the name of each commissioner with the ...

Suncorp completes insurance review after breaches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... remediation of compliance systems across its life and general insurance businesses. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requested the remediation program in June 2013 after it received reports of a large number of significant ...

Government clarifies adviser register funding

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensee annual lodgement fee with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). A spokesperson for Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told Financial Standard that the current lodgement fee of $38 ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... Cormann said it will be funded by increasing the current lodgement fee at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for Australian Financial Services licensees by $5 to $44. Financial Planning Association boss Mark Rantall said it was a "big ...

Government says no to CBA Royal Commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... together by the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in July. Regarding the Committee's proposal to open a Royal Commission into CBA, "the government considers that the most important ...

Industry needs unified solution to insurance "failure": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
Insurers and financial advisers must stop pointing fingers and create a unified response to address insurance sector failures, the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) deputy chair Peter Kell said "This needs a collective response ...

ASIC to crack down on big four, AMP and Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... Australia's six largest financial advice firms will be subject to surveillance from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) next year to make sure they comply with high-risk areas of the law. The initiative is part of the regulator's ...