FEDERAL COURT

Editorial

Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...

Financial planning

A deed of company arrangement that prevented investors from taking legal action against the group has been found by the Federal Court to be invalid....

Financial planning

The founders of collapsed advisory group Storm Financial are expected to give evidence today in a hearing in the Federal Court in Brisbane....

Financial planning

ASIC pursues action against Pacific Blue Securities and obtains freezing orders....

Financial planning

Dealer group PIS has agreed to compensate clients affected by the Westpoint collapse, but despite reaching an agreement with ASIC, it has not admitted liability....

Financial planning

Advisers should think all issues through carefully before acting on the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) new ruling that will affect the way capital gains made by trust...

Financial planning

ASIC has sought the winding up of Finchley Central Funds Management via action in the Federal Court....

Financial planning

Receivers and managers have been appointed to troubled City Pacific following the loss of its First Mortgage Fund....

Financial planning

City Pacific has lost control of its First Mortgage Fund following a Federal Court ruling that appointed Trilogy Funds Management as responsible entity....

Financial planning

Sole director of Axis International Management and representative of Sagecorp Securities....

Financial planning

Mortgage calculators which show that borrowers can pay off their mortgage sooner without increasing their monthly payments have attracted the attention of the regulator....

Financial planning

The argument over the management of the First Mortgage Fund will be heard in the Queensland Federal Court today, as the deadline for lodging proxy votes also arrives....

Financial planning

Dispute over newspaper advertisements settled on private terms following unreserved apology....

Financial planning

ASIC bans a West Australian financial adviser and cancels the licence of his firm, Concentric Wealth Management....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission yesterday obtained Federal Court orders to wind up the two remaining companies in the failed Victorian property inves...

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