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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...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has converted its pursuit of five options trading seminar operators into an enforceable undertaking with the Federal ...

Financial planning

The Federal Court in Brisbane has prevent the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund from offering any services or advice involvement in a scheme illegally promoti...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial adviser has been permanently banned from the industry after falling for a Nigerian letter scam....

Superannuation

A Brisbane broker has been forced to accept a permanent injunction preventing him from granting clients early access to their superannuation lump sums....

Financial planning

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation saw a South Australian financial adviser appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday charg...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has today taken action in two areas of considerable regulatory focus of late - early release super schemes and...

Financial planning

In the cut-and-thrust world of recruitment, consultants have been known to make exaggerated promises, warns Peter Dawson....

Financial planning

The legal battle between Graham Rich and Morningstar Australia and Morningstar Incorporated lurched ahead last week after the Federal Court gave directions that the two s...

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