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Thirty mortgage investment schemes managed by former Western Australian (WA) finance broker Knightsbridge Finance will be wound up under orders from the Supreme Court of ...

People & Products

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

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

The investment watchdog will not stand in the way of any financial planning group or master trust operator who charges fund managers a fee to appear on their recommended ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed a provisional liquidator to listed financial services group Harts Australasia, after receiving a...

Financial planning

Financial services group Harts Australasia has said it will strenuously defend yesterday’s appointment of a provisional liquidator to wind up the group by the Australian ...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will alter the landscape in which agribusiness has to work. John Wilkinson reports on how the new rules will impact this investm...

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) senior executive Shane Tregillis, who was closely involved with the development of ASIC policy papers in response ...

Financial planning

AMP has responded to media speculation that it has been in discussions regarding a merger with the National Australia Bank....

Financial planning

Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...

Financial planning

Harts subsidiary Cardinal Financial Services has vowed to fight the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over its decision to revoke its dealers licenc...

Financial planning

Financial planning group Harts Australasia has taken another hit after a subsidiary of the group had its dealers licence revoked by the Australian Securities and Investme...

Financial planning

Beseiged financial services entrepreneur Rodney Adler is to sell his stake in Financial Services Partners, a group which has interests in three dealer groups, NOW Financi...

Financial planning

ASIC takes action against ex-GIO directors...

Financial planning

ASIC effectively shut down Chapel Road when it revoked the dealer group’s licence in May. However, concerns about a number of other dealer group’s compliance procedures o...

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