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Financial planning

Professional Investment Services has commissioned a report examining a proposed takeover of the Opus 21 property fund by Century Funds Management – a report Opus ha...

Funds management

In another win for Westpoint investors, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has settled a compensation suit with KPMG and certain Westpoint Group ...

Financial planning

LM Investment Management vows to stop David Tweed’s Direct Share Purchasing Corporation gaining access to mortgage fund register....

Funds management

A law firm has initiated a class action against the agricultural manufacturer, Nufarm, backed by fund managers and super funds....

Financial planning

A Melbourne-based derivatives dealer is being prosecuted by ASIC following an investigation into suspected misleading and deceptive conduct....

Financial planning

Financial Education company The Hubb Organisation, which trades as Safety in the Market, has allegedly breached the law for making promotional representations about certa...

Financial planning

Law firm Slater & Gordon is mounting a class action against stockbroker Bell Potter....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings (PIH), the parent company of one of Australia’s largest non-institutionally owned dealer groups, has removed one of the final obsta...

Financial planning

Two Great Southern class action claims against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank fell through last week....

Financial planning

Investors with failed agribusiness provider Great Southern have launched a class action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, attempting to recover losses from the venture....

Financial planning

After recently settling its class actions against Glenhurst Corporation and State Trustees, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reached its si...

Financial planning

The five-year ban of a former Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker has been upheld following an unsuccessful appeal to the Federal Court in Perth....

Financial planning

ASIC has succeeded in having the Federal Court overturn an AAT decision lifting a banning order on a Queensland planner....

Financial planning

The founders of Sonray Capital Markets have been grounded while investigations into the advice firm's collapse continue....

Financial planning

A statement of claim has been filed in the Federal Court pleading a class action against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on behalf of Storm Financial investors....

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