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Financial planning

A Brisbane financial adviser has been banned by ASIC after recommending his clients roll their superannuation into SMSFs and borrow to invest in residential property. ...

Funds management

Former fund manager banned for $7m naked short selling

A former fund manager has been banned by ASIC for three years for naked short selling of shares worth $7 million....

Financial planning

Former Brisbane adviser permanently banned

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

Financial planning

Qld adviser banned for three years

ASIC has banned a Queensland adviser for three years for adopting a ‘layered advice’ strategy with clients....

Financial planning

Cancellation and 10-year bans for ‘layered advice’ approach

ASIC has banned two responsible managers for 10 years and cancelled the AFS licence of National Advice Solutions for adopting a ‘layered advice’ approach....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC makes second Spaceship Capital ban

Spaceship Capital chairman Paul Dortkamp has been banned by ASIC for a “fundamental oversight” related to his responsibilities, less than six months after its former CEO ...

Financial planning

ASIC bans ex-Spaceship CEO

Paul Kevin Bennetts has been banned from providing financial services for six years after asking a compliance officer to complete his Australian Institute of Company Dire...

Financial planning

ASIC ends 2021 with disciplinary blitz

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ended 2021 with a raft of fines, bannings, licence cancellations, and a bankruptcy notice....

Financial planning

AAT dismisses review of ASIC banning

Permanently banned former financial adviser, Robert Hutchison, failed to appear at an Administrative Appeals Tribunal directions hearing....

Policy & Regulation

Director banned for seven years by ASIC

Scott Morrison, a former director at Olive Financial Markets, has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for seven years for failing to act i...

Financial planning

Sydney former adviser banned for six years

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a Sydney man, formerly an adviser at Kaz Capital, from providing financial services for six years....

Financial planning

Sydney wealth firm sees licence suspended by ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended the licence of Sydney-based Australasia Wealth Services Management (ASWM) for failing to meet re...

Financial planning

ASIC bans inadequately trained planner

A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...

Financial planning

Planners account for 52% of unpaid EDR determinations

The new Australian Financial Complaints Authority has called for a last resort compensation scheme while citing $16 million in unpaid determinations, 52 per cent of which...