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Greg Sword resigns as CEO of LUCRF Super

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... as CEO as it provides an opportunity for the next generation of leaders to continue reforming the Australian financial services sector and maintain the important mission of the 'profit for members' model." Sword said that while he will stop being a full ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... product offering. Australia Ratings is the only credit rating agency in Australia which holds a retail Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) issued by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) meaning that it is the only ratings ...

ASIC accepts EU from forex broker over prohibited IMA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... an individually managed account (IMA) which was a managed discretionary account (MDA). Forex FS's Australian financial services (AFS) licence prohibits it from offering a MDA service to retail clients except through a registered managed investment scheme. ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... In the latest edition of Financial Standard, we look at the pros and cons of setting up your own Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). We also investigate the calls from some sectors of the industry to take superannuation out of the modern awards ...

FSC acclaims free trade agreement with Korea

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... was responding to details of the agreement released this week by the government. Under the KAFTA, Australian financial services providers will be able to supply specific financial services for the first time on a 'cross-border' basis. This will allow ...

ASIC cancels Capital Advisers' licence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Capital Advisers. The regulator also cancelled Capital Advisers' Australian credit licence following concerns that the group ...

Accountant guilty of operating 21 unregistered schemes

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... investor funds totaling almost $550,000 and of carrying on a financial services business without an Australian financial services (AFS) licence. Between 1998 and 2010 more than 1000 investors placed more than $100 million in investment property schemes ...

ASIC concerned about PDS font size, consumer warnings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... the primary document must be at least 9 points, except for the issuer's name, address, ACN, ABN or Australian financial services licence number, which must be at least 8 points. ASIC is also concerned about the fact that "the required warnings were often ...

Accountants cautious to enter advice space

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... numbers and almost six months after the accountant exemption ended, only 31 have applied for a limited Australian financial services licence (AFSL). "Accountants will not be rushing into limited AFSLs," the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia ...

Don't deal with Aussie Rob, ASIC warns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... consistently be achieved through use of Lifestyle Options - Share Rental." Despite not possessing an Australian financial services (AFS) licence, ASIC said Wilson has nevertheless continued to provide trade recommendations. Wilson is due to face court ...