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Financial planning

Adviser banned for embezzlement of funds

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

ASIC bans risky adviser

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a South Australian financial adviser from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or of a...

Financial planning

ASIC collars Dutch fugitive

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is pursuing court action against an individual it deems a serial securities offender, after alleging the man i...

Financial planning

Regional reshuffle at ING Investment Management

ING Investment Management regional director for North Asia Chris Ryan will replace Asia Pacific chief executive Paul Scully in the same role as of July 1, 2003 with the l...

Financial planning

AMP reveals acquisition interest

AMP confirmed today that it has received preliminary proposals from other financial groups regarding a possible acquisition, chairman Peter Wilcox told investors at the g...

Financial planning

ASIC to examine long range forecasts

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will crack down on the misuse of long range financial forecasts in prospectuses and product disclosure stateme...

Financial planning

Another ex-CNAL director banned

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified another former Commercial Nominees of Australia Ltd (CNAL) director from acting as a responsible of...

Financial planning

Tribeca scoops up Investment Training College

Tribeca Corporation, the owners of financial planning education and training provider Integratec, have purchased the Investment Training College (ITC) set up by industry ...

Financial planning

Maple Brown Abbott a winner on bricks and mortar

Underweighting international equities and overweighting property trusts has paid off for value manager Maple Brown Abbott (MBA) which has taken line honours in the multi-...

Editorial

Investors Mutual does it again with Australian equities

Investors Mutual has taken out the Australian equities category of Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award for the second year running....

Funds management

Strategic dumps Sagitta from listed property lineup

Master trust provider Strategic Investments Australia has dropped Sagitta Rothschild from its listed property trust lineup following the recent departures of a number of ...

Financial planning

Emphasis on agribusiness at van Eyk

Van Eyk Research has added another consultant to its agribusiness division, van Eyk Capital, with Dr Peter Dry now assisting analysis in the firm’s annual agribusiness re...

Financial planning

First Foundation frozen following ASIC investigation

First Foundation Developments and its senior employees will have $1.8 million assets frozen for running an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....

Financial planning

Platform managers get their cut

Platforms may make financial planners’ lives easier, but Lisa Bowman asks whether they offer consumers value for money, and whether fee levels will change going forward....

Financial planning

ASIC probe leads to imprisonment

A former company executive has been sentenced to a 12 month jail term, after pleading guilty to six charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (...