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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved in on property investment seminar promoters, obtaining undertakings from Henry Kaye, Alan Meagher, National...

Financial planning

Saxby Bridge Financial Planning, ABS Securities and their director are back in business following a successful appeal against their ASIC ban....

Financial planning

Has the death knell sounded for tax-friendly agricultural investment schemes? John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Tower Limited confirmed today that Guinness Peat Group (GPG) will act as underwriter to its NZ$210.8 million ($185 million) recapitalisation raising despite the latter ha...

Financial planning

Financial services group Challenger International and Kerry Packer’s CPH Investment Corp have officially combined in a $1.1 billion merger....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lodged an appeal in the Federal Court contesting an Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision to reinstate the sec...

Financial planning

Former Harts Australasia executive director Maxwell John Sweetman appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today after being charged with two counts of insider trading....

Financial planning

Financial services group Tower Australia will meet the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in court tomorrow after incorrect payments were made to its...

Policy & Regulation

Delays in the issuance of product rulings by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has threatened the ability of a number of prominent agribusiness managed investment schemes t...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned another financial adviser from the industry after involvement in a notorious Nigerian l...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has lost a court action brought by investors in a tax-effective scheme when the Federal Court ruled they entered into the scheme for ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun the new year with a spate of actions against individual financial advisers....

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been issued with an order from the Federal court restraining him from receiving money in connection with the supply of financial product...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has handed out another sentence in relation to the Lifestyle Property Group, a failed property investment grou...

Accounting

Two Melbourne based accountants have been permanently banned from managing corporations after the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) alleged they misu...

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