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The promoter of an illegal early release superannuation scheme has been ordered to forfeit property valued at over $5 million to the Commonwealth as a result of charges b...
Financial planning
Federal Tasmanian Liberal Senator John Watson has again asked the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to account for its lack of action in the lead up to the...
Financial planning
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has extended orders preventing the sole director of Palentia, formerly known as Kebbel, from leaving the country and disposing of his...
Financial planning
A superannuation fund auditor who issued unqualified audit reports has given an enforceable undertaking to the APRA....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has urgently sought orders to restrain the sole director of Palentia, a company formerly known as Kebbel, from leaving the country following a tip...
Financial planning
The SMS Advising Group has had its Australian Financial Services Licence revoked by ASIC....
Financial planning
Shadow shoppers seeking financial planning advice for ASIC’s current shadow shopping campaign are no longer at large....
Financial planning
A former director of unlicensed Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been jailed for eight years for the theft of $2.1 million from cl...
Funds management
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has laid 21 charges against Melbourne-based property developer Mark Stanley....
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition has criticised the corporate regulator for not going far enough in what is already being perceived by the industry as too harsh an assessment of fi...
Financial planning
A Queensland man, who allegedly operated a high-yield investment scheme and used it to dishonestly obtain $270,000, has appeared in court on seven charges brought by ASIC...
Financial planning
ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....
Superannuation
Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...