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An Adelaide accountant who set up and promoted managed investment schemes without a financial services license has been banned from providing financial services for three...

Financial planning

A wealth creation scheme that claims to be able to generate returns of at least 2 per cent every trading day is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Invest...

Financial planning

Hundreds of financial planning practices could incur huge fines or lose the right to operate their businesses if they fail to produce overdue 2004 annual accounts and aud...

Financial planning

A former director of Sydney-based Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, is back in Court after being committed to stand trial on 40 charges under the Crimes ...

Financial planning

A Sydney-based finance broker has felt the wrath of the corporate watchdog for a second time after being convicted in the Central Local Court of managing a company while ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has had another win after successfully taking claims to the Supreme Court against the operator of a failed solicitor’...

Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has given a clear message that it is getting tough on licensing after it banned a Victorian man from the financial services industry for five years...

Financial planning

Ten financial services professionals were jailed, 64 advisers were banned - 19 of them permanently - and 51 civil proceedings were taken against 118 people or companies, ...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups in regional areas will face a stricter program of regulatory spot checks by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after th...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released a guide to help Australian Financial Service licensees who suspect they may be breaching relevant regulat...

Financial planning

Former executive director of Harts Australasia, Maxwell John Sweetman, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Brisbane District Court to insider trading following an investigati...

Financial planning

A former options adviser and stockbroker has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court facing 52 forgery charges arising from an investigation by the Australian Securiti...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a Tasmanian-based man from providing any financial services after it was found he promoted an ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has vowed to continue its crackdown on dishonest financial planners after a Melbourne adviser was sentenced to two-ye...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reached an accord with its counterpart in Japan - the Financial Services Agency - to raise the level of co-operat...

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