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Financial planning
Sandhurst Trustees will face a class action brought by Wickham Securities investors after being ordered to hand over documents that may show it failed in its obligations ...
Financial planning
Accountant, Mervyn Ross Tarrant, has failed to have a seven-year ban from providing financial services overturned by the Federal Court of Australia....
Financial planning
Fiducian cleared for corporate restructure and struactural separation of its public offer superannuation fund....
Financial planning
The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....
Superannuation
An SMSF trustee has been ordered to pay fines and legal costs of $37,500, after taking advice from a financial planner before providing unauthorised loans to his brother-...
Financial planning
Former Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, is one of five former directors of Australian Property Custodian Holdings Limited (APCH) who have been penalised by the Fed...
Financial planning
ASIC has launched legal action against Make it Mine Finance for violating consumer credit laws, including responsible lending duties....
Financial planning
Two former WealthSure clients have been granted an application for special leave to appeal the reduction of their claim against the planning group and to compel its profe...
Financial planning
ASIC has begun civil proceeding against the founder and former directors of LM Investment Management Ltd alleging the directors failed in their duties to act with diligen...
Financial planning
NAB has become the first of the Big Four banks to move towards a settlement over a long-running late fees class action. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has won a legal battle with an investment manager that has dragged on for two years but will not take action to exact any form of penalty....
Financial planning
Mariner has stated it would not take an active part in proceedings by ASIC against former directors but did not consent to Court orders sought by ASIC or admit to any all...
Financial planning
FOS chief obudsman, Shane Tregellis rejects calls for a limit to its monetary jurisdiction and claims those urging a more legalistic approach are ingoring recent changes....
Superannuation
Members of family superannuation fund have been fined for using the fund to provide rent-free accommodation to their son....
Financial planning
More than 4000 customers of the CBA's planning businesses have registered for a review of the financial advice they received following the launch of the Open Advice Revie...
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