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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...

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services stakeholders continue to jostle for control with talks of mergers and takeovers rife and corporate raider Farooq Khan calling on the dismissal o...

Financial planning

Associated Planner Financial Services shareholders delivered a landslide vote this morning in favour of Challenger Financial Services Group's proposal to acquire the deal...

Funds management

A group of property investment seminar promoters have agreed to consent orders in the Federal Court to correct misrepresentations allegedly made in material promoting a s...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully taken claims to the Federal Court of Australia with the banning of a former Melbourne financial advi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained interim orders in the Federal Court against former insurance agent, Domenic Romeo prohibiting him from r...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services Group has revealed the specific details of its proposed merger with Associated Planners Financial Services following the Federal Court yeste...

Financial planning

The Southport Magistrates court in Queensland has pressed charges against a Brisbane businessmen relating to his involvement in a scheme promoting early access to superan...

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