FEDERAL COURT

Financial planning

A group of 31 victims of Melissa Caddick have agreed to an in-principle settlement with the auditors engaged to conduct annual audits of their SMSFs....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Court has found a company director guilty of operating unregistered managed investment schemes and carrying on a financial services business without holding a...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based advice firm and is aware it had recommended investments that included the now-liquidated Global Capital Property Fund an...

Financial planning

The regulator has cancelled the AFSL and credit licence of liquidated Ultiqa Lifestyle Promotions following a $19,000 unpaid AFCA determination that was paid by the CSLR....

Financial planning

Court details show the extent of an “advice model” run by United Global Capital that justified its winding up earlier this month....

Funds management

Financial penalties are typically meant to act as a deterrent against misconduct but how does a court decide a suitable size when the company has over $14 trillion in ass...

Funds management

Vanguard has been issued with a penalty by the Federal Court for making false and misleading statements about its ethically conscious fund....

Financial planning

A judge has dismissed an appeal by former Linchpin Capital Group director Peter Daly against a $150,000 penalty for breaching his duties as a director....

Financial planning

A former AMP adviser told the Federal Court how they are scared to turn off their phone after a fellow adviser attempted suicide as Justice McElwaine said the 92 objectio...

Financial planning

An alleged involvement with an insurance claims business has led the Federal Court to vary the orders of a banned adviser to add the threat of jail time....

Financial planning

A judge has frozen the assets of former Keystone director Paul Chiodo’s company and ruled in ASIC’s favour that administrators can be appointed to wind up the firm. ...

Financial planning

The decision whether to proceed with a $100 million settlement for members of the buyer of last resort class action against AMP has been decided in the Federal Court....

Financial planning

A former Melbourne financial planner, Bradley Grimm, has been sentenced for dishonest conduct regarding the transfer of self-managed super fund assets....

Financial planning

ASIC has applied for Keystone to be liquidated rather than wound up, as the Federal Court requests a report detailing the potential returns for any victims who have suffe...

Funds management

In an update to the case of managed fund Shield Master Fund, the Federal Court has appointed an independent party to have full control of its bank accounts and prevent th...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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