FRAUD

Financial planning

A former mortgage broker from ALC Group has been sentenced to more than eight years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to deception....

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Financial planning

A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....

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Financial planning

Victims of financial fraud in the Trio Capital fraud case have argued the case should not have been closed without revealing how it reached that conclusion....

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Financial planning

A group has called on ASIC to make its dealings with collapsed Trio Capital and the Astarra Strategic Fund public two years after it terminated its investigation....

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Financial planning

A former Queensland financial planner has been jailed for seven years on charges including forgery and fraud....

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Financial planning

A former Illawong financial adviser has appeared in court on 19 charges of engaging in dishonest conduct with investor funds, including their self-managed superannuation ...

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Financial planning

A Victorian man has been imprisoned for illegally obtaining funds to develop property and for conducting a financial services business without a licence....

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Financial planning

Former CEO of Wickham Securities has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in respect of 11 fraud offences....

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Financial planning

Former Wickham Securities' CEO, Garth Peter Robertson, has pleaded guilty to various charges, including fraud, for dishonestly attaining funds and property, and for provi...

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Accounting

A former accountant and PIS authorised representative is facing ASIC charges alleging fraud amounting to $800,000....

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former HSBC financial planner from financial services for dishonest conduct in relation to millions of dollars of clients’ funds....

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Financial planning

Octaviar executives have been found to have acted dishonestly in their roles as officers as they neglected their best interest duty. ...

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Features

Advisers could face hefty lawsuits if they are unable to keep pace with regulatory change and capability development. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can avoid legal t...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to be aware of ageing clients experiencing cognitive decline as they could be more vulnerable to financial fraud and abuse from strangers and fami...

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Financial planning

A former company director has been sentenced to over two years in jail for fraudulently misappropriating almost $300,000 of investor funds in a property development in Qu...

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