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Financial planning

The former secretary of failed investment firm Chartwell Enterprises, Ian Rau, has pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to eight further charges brought by ASIC....

Financial planning

The former secretary of investment company Chartwell Enterprises, Ian Rau, has pleaded guilty to charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (...

Financial planning

The former director of the investment company Chartwell Enterprises, Graeme Hoy, has been committed to stand trial on charges brought by ASIC....

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Financial planning

More than 1,000 investors have found themselves tied up in property development schemes that have been identified as illegal....

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Financial planning

ASIC cancels the AFSL of a company that stopped answering the phone and filing reports....

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Financial planning

A Sydney adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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Financial planning

An Adelaide man has received a fully suspended six-month prison sentence for assisting the unlicensed Power Financial Planning to encourage clients into Westpoint investm...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a company that sought to transmit its licence as part of a sales process and thereby circumvent regulatory checks....

Financial planning

Banned from providing financial services for six years on matters relating to the operation of a private mortgage investment business....

Superannuation

Melbourne man jailed over SMSF theft while his wife is fined for aiding and abetting....

Financial planning

ASIC has initiated multiple criminal charges against the former company secretary and a former director of a failed Geelong-based financial investment firm, Chartwell Ent...

Life/Risk

ASIC investigation reveals insurance broker used funds intended for obtaining income protection insurance policies for personal use....

Financial planning

Tim King discusses what financial services licensees should be ready for in compliance when a regulator comes knocking. ...

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Superannuation

A Victorian couple have pleaded guilty to charges brought by ASIC in relation to a SMSF business....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pursued charges against an Adelaide man who was the director of a planning firm which recommended Westpoint inves...

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