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The AXA Asia Pacific Group has been forced to terminate or modify a series of print and television advertisements after the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

Financial planning

A Tasmanian solicitors’ mortgage scheme has been pulled up by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) which has appointed a liquidator to oversee the ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is cracking down on the practice of tenuous financial forecasting, with the release of a draft policy statemen...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Consumer Protection special adviser Annette Donselaar will depart the watchdog early next year to take on a jo...

Financial planning

Saxby Bridge Financial Planning will next year appeal the decision made by the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) to revoke its securities dealer li...

Financial planning

Asking someone who to name a person they consider to be an influential person is not easy, but when the question is narrowed and the aim is to pick the most influential p...

Financial planning

Coming to grips with the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act is crucial for those providing education within financial services according to Australian Securities and Inv...

Financial planning

Socially responsible investments group Sage Global Fund and its major shareholder, online trading group Australian Investors Forum, have had an interim receiver appointed...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an interim stop order on Hedge Fund of Australia’s (HFA) short form wholesale offering document for...

Financial planning

An ex-financial adviser with Colonial Financial Services has been permanently banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer for depositing clients’ funds ...

Financial planning

A series of unregistered investment schemes and the companies that promoted them have been wound up after the Victorian Supreme Court described the schemes as a sham....

Financial planning

A former employee of the Melbourne based Lifestyle Group, John Lloyd Caust, has pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ court to seven charges of dishonestly using h...

Financial planning

The Federal Court of Australia has appointed a provisional liquidator to listed financial services group Harts Australasia one day after the group placed itself into volu...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken one investment adviser to court, put two behind bars and banned a stockbroking representative in sep...

Financial planning

Harts Australasia has lost its court battle against the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), with the listed financial services group being forced int...

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