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Financial planning

Former Grosvenor Securities representative Robert Andrew Street awaits sentencing in the County Court of Victoria after pleading guilty to fraud charges to the value of $...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based financial planning firm Halifax Partners has sold its client-base to a risk advice group operating under Perth dealer firm, Wealthsure, after the Australi...

Financial planning

A collection of firms and individuals promoting the trading of options with claims of returns of “60 to 180 per cent” and that investors attending seminars would find it ...

Financial planning

The findings of a new survey have contradicted the infamous ‘shadow shopper’ report released in February 2003 by the Australian Consumers' Association and the Australian ...

Financial planning

Australians have been duped into investing millions of dollars with companies based in Western Samoa and Mauritius after an Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

Financial planning

The former company secretary of an alternative investment scheme has appeared before a Perth Court to answer eight charges of making false statements under oath....

Superannuation

So you think there is nothing to vote for at the upcoming federal election? If you are a financial planner, think again, writes Rebecca Evans....

Financial planning

Former executive director of Harts Australasia, Maxwell John Sweetman, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Brisbane District Court to insider trading following an investigati...

Financial planning

A former options adviser and stockbroker has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court facing 52 forgery charges arising from an investigation by the Australian Securiti...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association will continue to lobby the Coalition Government following John Howard’s landslide victory in Saturday’s federal election, with the aim ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has postponed the date by which fund managers and product providers have to comply with the new dollar disclos...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has swooped on former authorised representatives of a funds management and stockbroking group after learning that ill...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a Tasmanian-based man from providing any financial services after it was found he promoted an ...

Financial planning

Australia could be a prime target for a telephone investment scam sweeping the United States with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission warning investors t...

Financial planning

The former director of a Queensland-based early release superannuation scheme has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on 21 charges of fraud brought by an Australi...

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