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ASIC has outlined the most common mistakes made by funds when creating their target market determinations as well as how many products have been withdrawn from the market...
Financial planning
The first person to be convicted of a ‘pump and dump’ scheme has been sentenced and fined after pleading guilty to charges of share manipulation and illegal dissemination...
Funds management
Wealth manager and stockbroker Ord Minnett has paid $888k to comply with an infringement notice from the Markets Disciplinary Panel regarding a buy-back....
Financial planning
Although finfluencers tend to “swim outside the safety flags”, Insignia chief executive Renato Mota believes they signal an unmet demand from a younger generation seekin...
Superannuation
Future Super has received an infringement notice from ASIC over alleged greenwashing, this time related to a social media post by the fund, following earlier action again...
Financial planning
ASIC has banned Terence Rio Nugara, director of Skynet Financial Services, for obtaining $1.6 million from misleading clients and enabling the early release of superannua...
Financial planning
The Federal Court has ordered Michael Dunjey’s Ascent Investment and Coaching Pty Ltd and its unregistered managed investment scheme, which owe $149 million to clients, b...
Financial planning
A former Sunshine Coast adviser has been sentenced after pleading guilty to nine counts of fraud totalling $625k by withdrawing funds without authorisation from his clien...
Financial planning
A Sydney financial planner has been sentenced to a maximum jail term of nine years after pleading guilty to 12 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by dece...
Financial planning
Hundreds of consumers with Dixon Advisory complaints are still waiting for updates months later as AFCA awaits the introduction of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort ...
People & Products
Delia Rickard, who spent over a decade at the ACCC and had previously been a senior executive at ASIC, has joined the board of the financial wellbeing organisation. ...
Superannuation
ASIC has banned Gold Coast-based director Darren Thomas Edden-Brown for eight years for promoting and helping consumers access their superannuation early to buy a home or...
Financial planning
A Tasmanian director has been sentenced to jail for a $1.8 million fraud scheme, where many of the victims were pensioners who had been targeted by cold-callers. ...
Policy & Regulation
With finfluencer Tyson Scholz receiving a permanent injunction, a global regulatory report, co-chaired by ASIC, has shed light on what the future could look like for finf...
Financial planning
A former Brisbane-based financial adviser has been permanently banned from any involvement in financial services. ...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...