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ASIC nudges robo-adviser to shutter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... quality and appropriateness." Consumers who are concerned about advice they received from Plenty Wealth or Plenty Plus can lodge a complaint with Lime FS or with AFCA or obtain independent legal advice. Plenty was a finalist for the Excellence in Wealth ...

Milestone ETF Rule passed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... have been regulated in the same way as mutual funds and were offered exemptive relief by the SEC, whereby the issuer would lodge an application justifying why rules applied to mutual funds shouldn't be applied to a new ETF. Since 1992, the SEC has issued ...

Queensland-based AFSL suspended

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... practice over concerns it was not meeting its obligations as a licensee. The regulator said Financial Options Pty Ltd failed to lodge its accounts and audit report for the year ending 30 June 2018, have a dispute resolution system and maintain organisational ...

ATO to crack down on SG non-payment

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
The Australian Taxation Office will start using Single Touch Payroll (STP) system data to identify and warn employers on non-payment of super guarantee, according to ATO deputy commissioner James O'Halloran. Speaking at the 2019 ASFA National Policy ...

Advisers to bear brunt of AMP failings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
AMP advisers planning to exercise their Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) arrangements look set to have their business valuations slashed as part of the institution's new strategy. AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari said the group will look to recalculate ...

Adviser stole $200k from SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... originally to last just until the end of May that year but was extended to 30 September 2016 so that Marigold Falconer could lodge an application for licence variation. In August 2016, ASIC cancelled the AFS licence of Marigold Falconer because it was ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
Suncorp was hit with a shareholder resolution today demanding it reduce its investment and underwriting exposures to coal, oil and gas. Market Forces lodged the resolution on behalf of 100 Suncorp shareholders. Suncorp confirmed it has received the ...

350 tax practitioners under investigation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... additional hours of CPE." O'Neill said six tax practitioners were also recently suspended for three months for failure to lodge their annual declarations. Due to multiple investigations carried out into high-risk behaviours, the Tax Practitioners Board ...

AFCA delivers $83 million win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has collected over $83 million for consumers and small businesses in just six months. In its first six months of operations, AFCA received over 35,000 complaints and 60% of those have already been resolved. ...

Record number of tax evasion reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
The Australian Taxation Office revealed its tip off line has been ringing off the hook this end of financial year as a record number of people report tax evaders. The ATO received nearly double the amount of referrals from the community about tax evasion ...