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ASIC offers fee relief to drought-affected farmers

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
ASIC is offering assistance to drought-stricken farmers and related businesses suffering from financial hardship. The corporate regulator will offer information about available financial counselling services and provide company fee relief to those affected ...

Financial advice as charitable giving

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 OCT 2018
A new financial advice firm operating as a charity is changing the lives of low income earners in Western Australia. Registered with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission, Leda Financial Advice was founded by financial adviser Michael ...

ASIC outlines code monitoring expectations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... to cover; and the competence of the monitoring body's existing staff. Entities wishing to become a monitoring body can register an expression of interest from next month, with draft submissions to be provided between 1 November and 31 December. Final ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Another new set of tariffs will take effect today in the on-going Sino-US trade battle. Yet most equity markets around the world registered gains last week ahead of its implementation. This is because US-China tariff phase two is less onerous than was ...

Financial planning needs more women: FPA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) is calling for greater gender balance in financial planning, citing increased consumer demand for female planners. In a release, the association said the proportion of women in financial planning ...

AFCA membership deadline arrives

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Financial services firms have until close of business today to register for membership of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. ASIC has issued a warning to all Australian financial services licensees, superannuation trustees and authorised ...

AAT overrides adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... Performance Wholesale Cars and the holder of the business name BF Wholesale. The banning will be recorded on ASIC's register of financial advisers. Between 2015 and January 2018, Fletcher was an authorised representative of the Australian Warranty ...

University students to run hedge fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
An industry-backed hedge fund has launched at the University of New South Wales, where students will run a concentrated long-short portfolio of ASX 300 stocks with ESG filters. Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) general manager Michael ...

Dealer groups lift due diligence post Dover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... licensing arrangements. Hundreds were successful in doing so before the July 6 deadline, but latest ASIC Financial Adviser Register data shows more than 100 financial advisers are still without an AFSL or have left the industry. Of the 394 Dover advisers ...

TAL hired private investigator to follow claimant: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
TAL went to great lengths to get out of paying insurance claims to a nurse which involved hiring a private investigator who followed her around the country, the Royal Commission heard today. Newly-appointed TAL general manager of claims Loraine van ...