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CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... root." The relevance of transformation at CBA goes beyond their advisers or their clients. As former CFPL planner and whistleblower Jeff Morris put it, the findings of the Senate inquiry are "just the tip of the iceberg." Other businesses might have ...

Inquiry has Macquarie Private Wealth in its sights

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... failings of compliance and it had a poor compliance culture." Macquarie was not available for comment. Jeff Morris, the whistleblower at the heart of the Commonwealth Bank financial planning scandal, has warned that the recently published findings of ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The inquiry was prompted by the regulator's failure to act on whistleblower information that there were cases of serious advice misconduct, document forgery and alleged fraud within a number of ...

Investors should take responsibility for themselves: Medcraft

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Individual responsibility remains a core part of the financial services system, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said, ahead of the Senate report on the inquiry into the regulator. The Senate Economics ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Australian firms are detecting crime through tip-offs from internal and external sources. Many have set up formal whistleblower programs.

ASIC budget cuts send the wrong message: Greens

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
Cuts to the funding of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) send the wrong message to would-be criminals, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said. Whish-Wilson spoke after ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said that ASIC will have to ...

Senate Committee forced to delay tabling of ASIC report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Senate on May 30. Several cases of bad advice within CBA's financial planning unit and ASIC's failure to act on whistleblower information prompted the inquiry. The committee has received an almost record number of 468 submissions from consumers and industry ...

New reports to stir financial planning perfect storm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
New information about the sales-driven culture inside the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit has prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) to leap to advisers' defense. Tonight's airing of 'Banking Bad' on the ABC's Four Corners program ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... soon made it clear that the inquiry would look at ASIC's broad performance. Williams stressed the need for better whistleblower protection and added that the regulator should be able to address wrongdoings through commercial and criminal law. He also ...

We did a "pretty good job" in CBA planning case: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... that such things didn't happen again." However, a recent submission to the Senate inquiry by former CFP adviser and whistleblower Jeffrey Morris suggested that "a proper investigation would reveal at least 100 current or former planners of CFP whose ...