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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revised its policy statement PS176 to make it easier for wholesale foreign financial services providers to operat...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from an Adelaide man who contravened the Corporations Act when he made unsoli...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced an undertaking from one promoter of wealth creation seminars and won a court case against another g...

Accounting

An Adelaide accountant who set up and promoted managed investment schemes without a financial services license has been banned from providing financial services for three...

Financial planning

A former Sydney-based financial adviser has pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraudulently misappropriating client funds for his own personal use after an ongoing investigat...

Financial planning

A former director of Sydney-based Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, is back in Court after being committed to stand trial on 40 charges under the Crimes ...

Accounting

A Sydney accountant who operated a financial services business without a licence appeared in court yesterday on seven charges resulting from an investigation by the Austr...

Financial planning

Financial planners providing tax advice have come under the spotlight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission who released new guidance today to ensure pr...

Financial planning

MMC Asset Management has provided an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following an investigation into unsolicited of...

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) has had two legal disputes relating to accusations of insider trading activities in its stock dismissed in the Federal Court of New South ...

Financial planning

The RetireInvest dealer group has been given a clean bill of health by KPMG, removing the enforceable undertaking put in place in February last year by the Australian Sec...

Financial planning

The founder of a Gold Coast-based firm responsible for running a series of wealth creation seminars has consented to orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland that preven...

Financial planning

Alternative Investment Group Absolute Capital has announced plans to de-list its second fund within a month from the Australian Stock Exchange, citing the “onerous” requi...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...

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...

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