CRIME

Financial planning

A former Northern Territory financial adviser has received a seven-year ban from ASIC, having been convicted of supplying dangerous drugs and receiving or possessing the ...

Features

With three separate financial advisers facing criminal proceedings this year having struggled with gambling problems, access to client money combined with a stressful job...

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund specialist advisers may play a critical role in assisting investors how to avoid cybercrime and investment scams, according to the SMSF Associatio...

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office has been funded to extend its targeting of serious and organised crime in tax and superannuation for another two years....

Financial planning

Westpac has announced the appointment of a board financial crime committee and Promontory Financial Group to undertake financial crime program review and external account...

Superannuation

A Sydney-sider is facing up to 20 years imprisonment, after being charged with dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception in relation to SMSF property inves...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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