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Financial planning

The Federal Court has ordered Michael Dunjey’s Ascent Investment and Coaching Pty Ltd and its unregistered managed investment scheme, which owe $149 million to clients, b...

Financial planning

A former Sunshine Coast adviser has been sentenced after pleading guilty to nine counts of fraud totalling $625k by withdrawing funds without authorisation from his clien...

Financial planning

A Sydney financial planner has been sentenced to a maximum jail term of nine years after pleading guilty to 12 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by dece...

Financial planning

Hundreds of consumers with Dixon Advisory complaints are still waiting for updates months later as AFCA awaits the introduction of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort ...

People & Products

Delia Rickard, who spent over a decade at the ACCC and had previously been a senior executive at ASIC, has joined the board of the financial wellbeing organisation. ...

Superannuation

ASIC has banned Gold Coast-based director Darren Thomas Edden-Brown for eight years for promoting and helping consumers access their superannuation early to buy a home or...

Financial planning

A Tasmanian director has been sentenced to jail for a $1.8 million fraud scheme, where many of the victims were pensioners who had been targeted by cold-callers. ...

Policy & Regulation

With finfluencer Tyson Scholz receiving a permanent injunction, a global regulatory report, co-chaired by ASIC, has shed light on what the future could look like for finf...

Financial planning

A former Brisbane-based financial adviser has been permanently banned from any involvement in financial services. ...

Financial planning

If all FPA/AFA members join, over half of the Financial Advisers Register could be members of the new FAAA and the organisation will have to work to meet the needs of the...

Financial planning

The Court found the officers of Linchpin Capital Group and Endeavour Securities breached their duties in managing a $17 million managed investment scheme and did not act...

Policy & Regulation

With at least five financial adviser bans, including an adviser who falsified his exam result, the corporate regulator has had a busy start to the year. ...

Financial planning

Financial adviser Jeneve Matai’s ban for providing a ‘layered advice’ strategy would remain after his appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was refused. ...

Funds management

The global asset manager has received a formal warning from the New Zealand financial regulator after failing to disclose earlier ASIC infringement notices as required un...

Financial planning

A Perth financial planning firm has pleaded guilty to three charges of dishonest conduct by falsifying information on client insurance forms....

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