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ASIC opens consultation on scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is calling on financial advisers to provide feedback to its consultation paper on affordable scaled advice. As previously announced last month, ASIC's latest consultation paper, Promoting access ...

Federal Court freezes investment scam, winds up SMSF operator

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... scammer and ordered the winding up of two unlicensed financial services businesses, upon referral from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Federal Court has made orders to restrain Matthew Alan Beresford from continuing a ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... first count took place between December 2014 and February 2017 when the bank withdrew client money over 4500 times from Australian clients and deposited the money into client accounts held by its Hong Kong operations. The second count took place within ...

Man arrested over investment scam

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
An investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has culminated in an arrest over a suspected investment scam. The 42-year-old Melbourne man was arrested following a joint investigation by ASIC and Victoria Police E-Crime Squad ...

ASIC reviewing risk advice, pushes for scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is conducting a review of life insurance advice and plans to consult with the industry on scaled advice this year. Speaking at the Association of Financial Advisers Conference, ASIC senior executive ...

Superhero nabs new recruits

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... analyst at the ASX, a brand development consultant at Silver Web Wines, and a clerk at Kelly & Co Lawyers and the South Australian Legal Services Commission. Biven, Superhero's new head of market operations, most recently managed Shaw and Partners international ...

ASIC puts SMSF auditors on notice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission imposed tougher registration conditions for two SMSF auditors following a slew of misconduct. William Krammer from Victoria and Yuk Wong from New South Wales have breached auditor independence and ...

ASIC relaxes IPO red tape

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... legislative relief. As a part of its public consultation, ASIC received four non-confidential submissions from the Australian Investment Council, Australian Financial Markets Association, Law Council of Australia and On-Market BookBuilds.

ASIC warns Indigenous Australians over scams

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... Scams Awareness Week, the corporate regulator is urging Indigenous Australians to be wary of scams. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is one of the agencies responsible for the National Indigenous Consumer Strategy and reveals the ...

Industry veterans launch dealer group

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... running of the dealer group. It has also partnered with SMART Compliance, the brainchild of former Australian Securities Commission investigator Brett Walker (who also sits on the dealer group's investment committee). The group is still actively looking ...