FEDERAL COURT

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...

Financial planning

The UK-arm of AMP’s operations, HHG, has taken an important step towards establishing itself as a separate entity by unveiling details of its $246 million listing on the ...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has given an undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to repaying some investors in its FAI Personal Superan...

Financial planning

Two executives of a firm that allows superannuation fund members to redeem their super today appeared in the Gold Coast Magistrates Court charged with making false or mis...

Financial planning

Disadvantaged investors are not bound by yesterday’s undertaking to industry regulators by the National Australia Bank to pay $67.2 million in compensation following prod...

Financial planning

Taxpayers Australia has labelled a settlement offer by the Australian Tax Office for involvement in mass-marketed agricultural schemes “rough justice” following a court d...

Financial planning

Insurer Rural & General Insurance Broking has attracted more regulatory attention, this time from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), over concer...

Financial planning

A South Australian financial adviser has been sentenced to over two years jail term after an investigation conducted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

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