FEDERAL COURT

Financial planning

The Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne has ordered that Pacific Blue Securities be wound up and limitations placed on its sole director, Sean Fogarty, pending furthe...

Financial planning

ASIC has obtained a declaration against former Citrofresh managing director and chief executive Ravi Narain that he engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct....

Financial planning

Litigation funding group IMF Australia has been successful in receiving an exemption from ASIC from having to register several class actions as MISs, but group actions in...

Financial planning

Bongiorno Financial Advisers and State Trustees to pay more than $16 million in compensation to investors....

Financial planning

Financial services licensees must stop the merry-go-round of bad advisers, with the industry failing to add substance to the rhetoric of 'weeding out the bad apples'....

Financial planning

Dealer group Millennium3 won a recent court case against one of its former authorised representatives, Avoca Consultants, which it ejected after it failed to meet the gro...

Financial planning

Investors to be paid by Bongiorno after settlement of ASIC-initiated class action....

Financial planning

ASIC has granted transitional relief that will allow class action against groups including Great Southern to continue without disruption until at least the middle of next...

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services will draw on a $17 million fund it created in 2007 to cater for claims made against the company from Westpoint investors....

Financial planning

Litigation funders may rethink their class action opportunities against fund managers if they are required to register multi-party action as managed investment schemes....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services has been ordered to pay $5.9 million to Westpoint investors....

Financial planning

ASIC have initiated civil proceedings in the Federal Court against the directors of Centro, including the company's CFO, on the basis of shortcomings in the group's 2007 ...

Financial planning

Australia's competition regulator has moved to punish a mortgage franchiser who claimed he had a special deal with the regulator....

Financial planning

Melbourne man faces Federal Court charges over allegations that he and his company sought to unlawfully raise in excess of $1.3 million by offering securities without a d...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched civil action on behalf of Westpoint investors against advisory firm Brighton Hall Securities....

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