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Andre Michalik, the former promoter of a scheme for the early release of superannuation entitlements, has been jailed for two years by the Supreme Court of New South Wale...
Financial planning
A NSW man has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for providing unlicensed advice....
Financial planning
The operators of an illegal Gold Coast managed investment scheme have been issued with a temporary injunction by the Queensland Supreme Court stopping them from carrying ...
Financial planning
Two men alleged to have sold risk insurance without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence failed to attend a scheduled Federal Court appearance in Perth yester...
Financial planning
A number of companies connected with an unregistered management investment product are now the subject of Federal Court restraining orders following legal action by the A...
Financial planning
A Brisbane man who acted as a commission agent for an investment scheme based on sunken treasure from shipwrecks has been convicted of operating a financial services busi...
Funds management
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has laid 21 charges against Melbourne-based property developer Mark Stanley....
Financial planning
A man who placed advertisements in a Sydney newspapers using the catch-phrase "superannuation cashback" has appeared in Sydney's Central Local Court charged with 22 count...
Financial planning
A Queensland man, who allegedly operated a high-yield investment scheme and used it to dishonestly obtain $270,000, has appeared in court on seven charges brought by ASIC...
Superannuation
A self-managed superannuation fund adviser, who allegedly recommended consumers with as little as $8,000 in superannuation set up self-managed funds and then charged them...
Financial planning
A former Mawson Securities adviser who allegedly defrauded the Queensland company of nearly $500,000 is one of three separate fraudsters to be set upon by the Australian...
Editorial
Ray Griffin shows hypothetically how financial services businesses are at risk of litigation if they don’t exercise their correct duty of care when advising in property i...
Financial planning
A former South Australian insurance adviser has been handed a suspended sentence by an Adelaide court after being brought up on charges of fraud and deception instigated ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced an undertaking from one promoter of wealth creation seminars and won a court case against another g...
Accounting
A Sydney accountant who operated a financial services business without a licence appeared in court yesterday on seven charges resulting from an investigation by the Austr...
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