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Financial planning

Two directors and two employees of another company associated with the notorious Wattle Group have pleaded guilty to charges in the Brisbane District Court and will be se...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a new Class Order on reporting requirements for individuals holding Australian Financial Services (...

Financial planning

Advisers and accountants want to know what they have to do in order to be able to continue to provide advice in the area of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs)....

Financial planning

The administrators of the failed Wattle Group have pleaded guilty to charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests in contravention of the...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has charged another executive in relation to the failed multi-level investment scheme, the Wattle Group, that ...

Financial planning

First Foundation Developments and its senior employees will have $1.8 million assets frozen for running an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....

Financial planning

IWL passed the critical 90 per cent ownership of Sanford Securities late on Thursday, allowing it to now compulsorily acquire the remaining stock of the group as permitte...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to industry concerns about the need to regularly prepare supplementary product disclosure statem...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed extra conditions on the securities dealers’ licences of Permanent Trustee Company and Permanent Inv...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Kevin Trezona, formerly a director and authorised representative of Investment Planners...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken action to ban South Australian investment advisers Roger Gordon and Colin Turner from advising on, o...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a fresh warning to responsible entities (REs) of managed investment schemes that to comply with the...

Financial planning

Two financial advisers have been charged in the Adelaide Magistrates Court with a number of offences relating to fraud and failing to pass on client monies....

Financial planning

A Queensland court has thrown out an application by the promoters of the discredited Wattle investment scheme to have the prosecution into the group by the Commonwealth D...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser for life....

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