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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed an interim stop order on the Timber Australia Project’s prospectus of April 19....
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Australia’s agricultural investment industry has reacted in favour of the recent crackdown by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and the Australian Securities and Investment...
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A director of a taxation business in Melbourne has undertaken not to act as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser or hold a proper authority from ...
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A former director of the Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, has been banned from being involved in the management of a company for 30 years....
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released the final report of its investigation into solicitors mortgage schemes, calling for a beefed up r...
Financial planning
Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first ever license under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSR), with the first cab off the ra...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to calls by financial planners to recognise pre-1995 training, announcing yesterday it would acc...
Financial planning
Two directors of an investment advisory corporation have been banned from managing corporations for up to 10 years after the Australian Securities and Investments Commiss...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has wound up the Financial Options Group Inc and the Australian Fund and has prohibited its directors from lea...
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The crackdown on managed investment schemes has continued with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) suspending the securities dealers licence of Pl...
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A former ABN AMRO Morgans proper authority holder is the latest financial adviser to be permanently banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
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ASIC has advised those applying for new licences under the new Financial Sector Reform Act (FSRA) to be prompt and use the electronic application service provided on the ...
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Thirty mortgage investment schemes managed by former Western Australian (WA) finance broker Knightsbridge Finance will be wound up under orders from the Supreme Court of ...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...