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RI Advice faces ASIC action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
ASIC has filed a Federal Court action against RI Advice and one of its former financial advisers who was the subject of a case study during the Royal Commission. Commencing court action today, the corporate regulator has alleged RI Advice failed to ...

ASIC sues ANZ over unlawful fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... million in remediation to customers to date but it hasn't paid back customers charged prior to 31 December 2007. The ASIC Act contraventions attract a maximum pecuniary penalty of between $1.7 million and $2.1 million per contravention. ASIC said ANZ's ...

ASIC names new default super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... nominate a superannuation fund will be defaulted into AustralianSuper. From that time, ASIC will employ people under the ASIC Act instead of the Public Service Act. Under the Public Service Act, new employees were defaulted into the Commonwealth Superannuation ...

Industry fund fined over independent advice claims

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... issued by ASIC. However, ASIC said the payment of the infringement notice is "not an admission of a contravention of the ASIC Act."

ASIC outlines enforcement efforts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... Rate case against Westpac in November - with the Federal Court ordering Westpac to pay $3.3 million for contravening the ASIC Act 2001 by its involvement in setting the ASX Bank Bill Swap Rate in 2010. An independent report was ordered by the court ...

AMP overhauls wealth leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... acknowledge 196 instances of misconduct relating to financial advice, as well as contraventions to the Corporations Act and the ASIC Act in relation to fees for no service during the Royal Commission. These revelations forced AMP's chief executive ...

Westpac cops BBSW fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... ensnared Australian banks this year. On Friday the Federal Court ordered the bank pay $3.3 million for contravening the ASIC Act in its involvement in setting the BBSW eight years ago. Additionally, the bank will welcome an independent expert into its ...

NAB, MLC face class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... pensions. Slater and Gordon allege the sales practices amounts to unconscionable conduct, meaning MLC and NAB contravened the ASIC Act. Acting on behalf of customers, the law firm believes NAB knew that its credit card insurance was likely to be of little ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... or deceptive or likely to misleading or deceive"; Engaging in "unconscionable" conduct contrary to section 12CA of the ASIC Act for charging the PSF, attempting to retain and avoid reimbursement in circumstances where it was known that the fee should ...

Dover AFSL cancelled, McMaster exits industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... services laws. ASIC determined certain terms of the policy were detrimental to clients and unfair under section 12BG of the ASIC Act because they created a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the adviser and their client; and were ...