FRAUD

Financial planning

A former company director has been sentenced to over two years in jail for fraudulently misappropriating almost $300,000 of investor funds in a property development in Qu...

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Life/Risk

Insurers are investigating suspicious claims thanks to fraud hotline tip offs from the public....

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Accounting

A NSW SMSF accountant has been charged with multiple counts of criminal conduct and fraud after he misused investor funds and made false and misleading statements to inve...

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Financial planning

Ex-financial adviser, Thanh Tu, will serve a minimum of three years in prison after pleading guilty to 33 counts of fraud and 21 counts of fraudulent falsification of rec...

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Financial planning

Two of the names at the centre of the Trio Capital collapse, Jack Flader and James Sutherland, have been named in UK court proceedings. ...

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Financial planning

A NSW-based tax and credit agent has been banned from providing financial services for four years after signing off on false documents created by his ex-wife....

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Financial planning

Banned Queensland-based planning principal, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, will face 34 charges relating to fraud following an ASIC investigation....

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Funds management

A team leader within a platform provider’s settlement department has been permanently banned from providing financial services after being convicted of a $1 million fraud...

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Superannuation

Anti-fraud messages do not have enough outreach and self-funded retirees and small business owners are often targets of investment fraud, a survey has found....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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