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Showing 21 - 30 of 1908 results for "disclosure"

FSC ups expectations on platform trustees' governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... diligence prior to the onboarding of any option onto an investment menu. It said this would include due diligence on key disclosure documents, the option's fees, costs, liquidity characteristics, and stress testing. Trustees should also consider ...

Strengthen Life Code for mental health crisis, claims handling: Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... customers or customers experiencing family violence, is also up for discussion. The Life Code's reference to the disclosure of vulnerability "should be redrafted to emphasise the disclosure of the consumer's situation so as to identify their ...

Five promoted at Frontier Advisors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... Frontier for two years and previously worked as an investment analyst at Aviva. He works on Frontier's portfolio holdings disclosure insights. Kiryll Prakapenka is now a consultant. He is a former financial content writer, podcaster and analyst who joined ...

Fiducian to pay $7.3m greenwashing fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... the $7.3 million pecuniary penalty. It will also reimburse ASIC for its legal costs of about $650,000. The product disclosure statement of DSAF was found to have "contained ESG Statements and Systems and Processes Statements which were liable to mislead ...

Binance Australia to pay $10m over deliberate customer misclassifications

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
... multiple-choice quiz until they have passed were deemed one. During the period, Binance also failed to provide a product disclosure statement (PDS) to retail clients, implement a target market determination, maintain a compliant internal dispute resolution ...

ASIC launches beneficial ownership transparency review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2026
... including through derivative exposures over securities in the company," the regulator said. Amending the beneficial disclosure obligations in the Corporations Act will apply to companies, registered schemes, notified foreign passport funds and other ...

Former MWL Financial adviser banned for six years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2026
... failures. In February 2024, ASIC halted new offers of investments in Shield. ASIC made interim stop orders on four product disclosure statements for Shield. In June 2024, ASIC took action to secure the assets held within Shield. ASIC sought orders to ...

Product showcase: Follow the leaders

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
... financial product, or to engage in or refrain from engaging in any transaction. You should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Target Market Determination (TMD) before making any recommendations to a client. The disclosure documents ...

MIS review ignores key issues: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... areas. Complaints related solely to the investment performance of a financial investment except when it concerns non-disclosure or misrepresentation; the management of a fund or scheme as a whole; against the trustee of an SMSF in respect to conduct ...

First half steady, net inflows positive for Fiducian

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2026
... the Diversified Social Aspirations Fund (DASF) in relation to its description of how the fund works in the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS). The underlying funds were the Candriam Sustainable Global Equity Fund operated by Ausbil Investment Management ...