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Financial planning

Two Melbourne men associated with the failed Lifestyle property group have been sentenced to a total of seven years jail after pleading guilty to charges brought by the A...

Financial planning

The industry has come out in support of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recommendation that regulations surrounding the use of past performance...

Accounting

Two directors of an accounting practice who were managing an unregistered managed investment scheme will face the Supreme Court of Queensland after the Australian Securit...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) says the use of past performance figures in advertising should include a five year return figure, be calculate...

Financial planning

Two people associated with the failed Lifestyle property group in Melbourne will know their punishment later this month after being ordered to appear for sentencing in th...

Funds management

A standardised definition for all fees, and their disclosure and purpose listed in one table in the product disclosure statement (PDS) of managed investment products were...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained orders in the New South Wales Supreme Court to restrain a former Saxby Bridge employee from provi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) continuing campaign against solicitors mortgage schemes received another shot in the arm yesterday, with the...

Financial planning

A former director of Freeman Hall Investment Services has been sentenced to a maximum of two years in jail after being convicted on two charges of failing to act honestly...

Financial planning

A Queensland court has thrown out an application by the promoters of the discredited Wattle investment scheme to have the prosecution into the group by the Commonwealth D...

Financial planning

Having established that the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence application process is simply too hard for your average financial planner, the Australian Securiti...

Financial planning

Macquarie Town Financial Planning director, John Michael Higgins, has been restrained by a Supreme Court injunction from providing financial products or services advice, ...

Financial planning

A former director of Freeman Hall Investment Services has pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to act honestly while operating as a licensed securities dealer....

Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups are using a combination of the new privacy regulations and the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) to stop departing financial planners ...

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) licensing web will snare a growing number of unsuspecting professionals employed outside the realm of financ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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