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ISA to change Compare the Pair ads

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... its 'Compare the Pair' advertising campaign to include disclaimers after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) expressed concern that the ads were misleading to consumers. In future advertisements, ASIC said ISA will clarify the ...

Banks suspected of pocketing grandfathered commissions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... financial advisers, Industry Super Australia (ISA) has warned. ISA has called on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to investigate the issue of what it calls 'orphan commissions'. ISA chief executive David Whiteley said it was ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... futures contract was up four points at 5,413. Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft is slated to speak at an Australian Institute of Company Directors lunch in Sydney. In equities ...

ASIC bans former PIS and AMP advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... AMP Financial Planning advisers have been banned from financial services. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) took action against AMP Financial Planning adviser Roy Whye Wah Moo after the County Court of Victoria charged him of ...

Senate FoFA conclusions expected today

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... of the Economics Committee's parallel investigation on the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). This inquiry was prompted by the regulator's failure to address cases of bad financial advice within Commonwealth Bank's ...

Financial Wisdom to face class action for poor advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... the Senate Economics Committee reports its conclusions of an inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) failure to address cases of bad advice within CBA's financial planning groups. The inquiry found out that CBA had ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence from September 2005 to April 2013. An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found that Konjevic had not adhered to various UBS codes of conduct and was likely to have misled ...

ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to grant it a more flexible regulatory toolkit and increase its scope to address market problems. Giving a speech at the Corporate Governance ...

Budget cuts force ASIC to axe surveillance

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The cuts to the funding of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have forced the regulator to axe proactive surveillance in a number of areas. ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft told the Senate Economics Committee during a budget estimates ...

ASIC budget cuts send the wrong message: Greens

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
Cuts to the funding of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) send the wrong message to would-be criminals, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said. Whish-Wilson spoke after ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said that ASIC will have to ...