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SMSF adviser ordered to repay clients

... Services (SRS), from providing unlicensed superannuation advice. The action from the regulator was based on misleading advertising and the conduct of business by Preston and his company without holding an AFSL licence. Preston had also approached clients ...

Fincorp pulled up by ASIC for misleading advertising

Another advertising campaign has been pulled up by ASIC this week, this time with the retail based financial group Fincorp Investments being issued with an Enforceable Undertaking for misleading statements. Fincorp's advertising campaign, which appeared ...

FPA launches advice campaign

... Kelly. The integrated campaign will offer a consumer value of advice kit and will be included in television and print advertising. in addition a website is expected to run for three years beginning in October of this year. A key part of the campaign ...

IFS changes advertisements to suit ASIC

... consumers might have been confused by the advertisements as previously published and is pleased that IFS has changed its advertising in response to our concerns," ASIC deputy chairman Jeremy Cooper says. IFS has, without accepting ASIC's views, undertaken ...

Be prepared to pay for advice: FPA

... changing their superannuation fund. The FPA warning follows ASIC's recent demand to Industry Fund Services to withdraw an advertising campaign with promoted industry funds as low cost compared to their retail counterparts.

Tasplan endorses industry fund campaign

Tasplan's general manager Neil Cassidy has responded to the latest industry fund advertising campaign saying the $16 million campaign will at last bring out into the open the outstanding value offered by industry funds. Cassidy says the 'sleeper' in ...

Choice awareness grows as willingness to move drops

... of the change, up 20 per cent in the past month alone. This awareness has climbed as a result of the Government's advertising campaign but was tempered by finding which showed a third of respondents working full or part time were unaware they received ...

FPA concerned over misleading advertising about Choice

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expressed its concerns that the current advertising campaigns regarding choice of fund are factually inaccurate and are creating a confusing climate for consumers in the lead up to the new regime. The FPA ...

ASIC reveals financial services refinement projects

... to issue a class order relief by August 2005 to allow unlicensed product issuers to provide a simpler GAW in their advertising. Rules surrounding personal advice will also be looked at with ASIC to clarify possession of a client's personal information ...

ASIC cracks down on early access to superannuation scheme

... Redfern. The companies came to the attention of ASIC after several public complaints against newspaper advertisements advertising the slogan 'Where is your super going? Unlock your super for your future?' Based on the Gold Coast and operating nationally ...