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Financial planning

EC Audit was fined $40,000 while Robert Evett was fined $10,000 for auditing standards breaches of Halifax Investment Services....

Policy & Regulation

Former director of Australasia Wealth Services and Management, James Feng, has been charged with authorising the making of a false or misleading statement to the Australi...

Policy & Regulation

Financial services companies cannot necessarily rely on claims of legal privilege to prevent the Australian Securities and Investments Commission obtaining documents – so...

Policy & Regulation

A Queensland financial adviser has pleaded guilty to dishonestly using around $1.1m of client money for his own use. ...

Superannuation

Appeals by QSuper and Investors Exchange Limited against the Australian Financial Complaints Authority have been dismissed by the courts as the body has been found to hav...

Superannuation

The decision by the owners of research and ratings house Zenith to call off their bid for Chant West has resulted in the initiation of court action....

Policy & Regulation

The full Federal Court has confirmed the directors of Storm Financial breached their duties, after the original judgement was handed down in August 2016....

Policy & Regulation

NSW-based Michael Ming Jinn Ho, a former investment analyst, has pleaded guilty to insider trading in securities of Big Un Limited....

Expert Analysis

Financial services barrister, Noel Davis, explores the recent Federal Court decision on IOOF’s use of the member’s reserve and concludes that superannuation fund members ...

Financial planning

Registered tax agent, Nigel Bradshaw, has been sentenced to a one-year jail term after he was caught stealing refunds from clients....

Financial planning

The corporate watchdog has alleged Keith James Flowers of using his position as director dishonestly and obtaining financial advantage by deception....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has registered another win its prolonged legal battle over the collapse of MFS Investment Management....

Policy & Regulation

A former Perth financial services representative has been banned from providing financial services following a Court conviction for four counts of stealing....

Accounting

A NSW SMSF accountant and former financial adviser has pleaded guilty to two charges of making false and misleading statements and fraudulent misappropriation of client f...

Financial planning

A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....

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