Keith Ford

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The Financial Advice Association Australia has appealed to licensees to urgently update their FAR records as hundreds of advisers are set to depart by the end of the year...

ASIC has launched legal action in the Federal Court against SQM Research and Interprac Financial Planning, citing alleged failures related to the Shield and First Guardia...

The Financial Advice Association Australia has implored advisers to reevaluate their exposure to AML/CTF obligations ahead of new reforms that will expand their complianc...

The Financial Advice Association Australia has appointed two new board members following two weeks of voting, as well as one re-elected member. ...

The former licensee of Anthony Del Vecchio, a Melbourne adviser sentenced for a $4.5 million theft, has seen its AFSL cancelled by ASIC after a payment by the Compensatio...

ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser for eight years over false and misleading statements regarding clients’ superannuation investments....

The Federal Court has dismissed a conflicted remuneration case brought by ASIC against the director of life insurance distributor Freedom Group, where Bali holidays and V...

ASIC wants to expand proceedings against Equity Trustees to seek compensation for members following Macquarie’s agreement to pay $321 million over Shield failings. ...

The corporate regulator enacted a 50 per cent increase in the number of investigations and a 20 per cent increase in civil enforcement proceedings....

Macquarie Investment Management is to fully remediate all of its superannuation fund members the entirety of what they had invested in the Shield Master Fund, totalling $...

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