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Financial planning

An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....

Financial planning

A former Mawson Securities adviser who allegedly defrauded the Queensland company of nearly $500,000 is one of three separate fraudsters to be set upon by the Australian...

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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...

Financial planning

A Sydney-based finance broker has felt the wrath of the corporate watchdog for a second time after being convicted in the Central Local Court of managing a company while ...

Financial planning

An adviser who failed to disclose a financial interest in Melbourne stockbroking firms he recommended for clients to invest in has been permanently banned from providing ...

Financial planning

The operators of a Perth based early release super scheme that used television advertising to promote its services has been nabbed by the Australian Securities and Invest...

Funds management

Rivkin Financial Services’ newly appointed board has moved quickly to impose its plans for the group by allocating $6 million of the firm’s cash reserves to Sydney-based ...

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a South Australian insurance broker for a series of deceptions, which included collecti...

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services suitor Farooq Khan has succeeded in his crusade of seizing control of the listed financial services group with the ousting of RFS chief executiv...

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

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

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

Morningstar and its former chief executive Graham Rich are one step closer to a potential courtroom showdown after the NSW Supreme Court rejected two claims by the resear...

Financial planning

Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) shareholders delivered a landslide vote last week in favour of Challenger Financial Services Group’s (CFSG) proposal to acqu...

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