AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has extended the asset freezing orders against the Westpoint directors and associated companies while its investigati...

Financial planning

South Australian company First Pacific Securities Australia has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled following an investigation by ASIC....

Financial planning

ASIC has been receiving more reports about breaches of the Corporations Act, but has been acting on fewer of them, according to a report by the Australian National Audit ...

Financial planning

Former KLA Australia Investments director Christopher Fearon has failed in his appeal of the disqualification charge brought against him by the Australian Prudential Regu...

Financial planning

Responsible entities of listed managed investment schemes will soon be able to issue discounted interests to their associates under class order changes announced by the A...

Financial planning

A Perth-based adviser previously investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for 33 counts of fraud, now faces an additional 12 charges....

Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has reduced a ban from providing financial services imposed by the regulator against Julian Hayes, a former representative of Macquari...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Sovereign Capital Limited....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned the former director of an insurance broking firm from providing financial services after she w...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the winding up of several Melbourne-based investment scheme...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has intervened in Sovereign Capital’s intention to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund, due to concerns the Gold Co...

Financial planning

A new cold calling operation is threatening Australian investors, this time in the form of alleged scammers posing as representatives of a non-existent United States brok...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator is currently seeking orders in the Federal Court of Australia to stop Sample & Partners, a mortgage broking company, from engaging in misleading a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been granted Federal Court orders to wind up a total of 14 companies associated with the failed Westpoint group....

Financial planning

One former financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for three years, and another for 12 months, at the hands of the corporate regulator for var...

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