AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION
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South Australian company First Pacific Securities Australia has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled following an investigation by ASIC....
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ASIC has been receiving more reports about breaches of the Corporations Act, but has been acting on fewer of them, according to a report by the Australian National Audit ...
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Former KLA Australia Investments director Christopher Fearon has failed in his appeal of the disqualification charge brought against him by the Australian Prudential Regu...
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Responsible entities of listed managed investment schemes will soon be able to issue discounted interests to their associates under class order changes announced by the A...
Financial planning
A Perth-based adviser previously investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for 33 counts of fraud, now faces an additional 12 charges....
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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has reduced a ban from providing financial services imposed by the regulator against Julian Hayes, a former representative of Macquari...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Sovereign Capital Limited....
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned the former director of an insurance broking firm from providing financial services after she w...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the winding up of several Melbourne-based investment scheme...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has intervened in Sovereign Capital’s intention to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund, due to concerns the Gold Co...
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A new cold calling operation is threatening Australian investors, this time in the form of alleged scammers posing as representatives of a non-existent United States brok...
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The corporate regulator is currently seeking orders in the Federal Court of Australia to stop Sample & Partners, a mortgage broking company, from engaging in misleading a...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been granted Federal Court orders to wind up a total of 14 companies associated with the failed Westpoint group....
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One former financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for three years, and another for 12 months, at the hands of the corporate regulator for var...
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