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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 ...

Whistleblower claims the existence of 100 CBA rogue advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser and whistleblower Jeffrey Morris has "no doubt" that a proper investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) would reveal at least 100 current or former rogue CBA advisers. ...

ASIC enhances whistleblower communication

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is taking steps to improve whistleblower communication and protection, one of the main concerns that prompted the Senate inquiry into the regulator's performance. ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft ...

BlackRock ends "unfair" analyst surveys

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
BlackRock has agreed to end its controversial practice of surveying equity analysts to get insight into their views on companies before the information is made public. A US investigation into the practice determined that it "provides an unfair advantage ...

Australia's whistleblowing regime far from best-practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... whistleblowing needs to be considered in light of the fact that Part 9.4AAA does not actually impose any specific whistleblower protection role on ASIC," he added. "Given the many limitations of and deficiencies in these provisions, it is not surprising ...

ASIC didn't take my claims seriously: whistleblower

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
Whistleblower and business partner of now banned Lifestyle Trader director Aussie Rob has accused the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) of not taking his claims seriously. In a submission to the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

Problem is weak credit law, not us: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) claimed that it had limited jurisdiction over the credit industry in its final submission to the Senate inquiry. In its final submission, ASIC focused on the reforms to the credit industry and ...