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Financial planning

The founders of Sonray Capital Markets have been grounded while investigations into the advice firm's collapse continue....

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Financial planning

A statement of claim has been filed in the Federal Court pleading a class action against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on behalf of Storm Financial investors....

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Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld ASIC's banning of Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker Roberto Gerald Catena from providing financial services for five years, ...

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People & Products

Following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Federal Court has appointed two liquidators to wind up the unregistered manag...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against two loan brokers, a lender and the sole director of thr...

Financial planning

Recent Federal Court decisions have reasserted the powers of ASIC to disqualify company directors who have failed to fulfil their responsibilities....

Tools & guides

It is vital that superannuation fund members have an understanding of death benefits, says ING Australia's Scott Quinn....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government will draft regulation that will in effect reverse a Federal Court decision made in October last year that funded class actions are managed investme...

Financial planning

ASIC has obtained Federal Court orders freezing the assets of what it believes may be a Ponzi scheme....

Policy & Regulation

MLC Lifetime has reached an agreement to settle a dispute with the ATO regarding the tax treatment of a reinsurance contract entered into by MLC Lifetime in the 1998 tax ...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled City Pacific’s Australian financial services licence as the company continues to wind up....

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has issued consent orders that Refund Home Loans and its director, Wayne Ormond, made false and misleading statements to franchisees, according to the A...

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Financial planning

Law firm Levitt Robinson argues the compensation arrangements being negotiated between former Storm Financial clients and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia will not achi...

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Financial planning

State Trustees ordered to pay $13.5 million compensation to Westpoint investors....

Financial planning

More than 1,000 investors have found themselves tied up in property development schemes that have been identified as illegal....

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