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Financial planning

The actions of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick have resulted in heavy costs for the financial advice subsector, as the FAAA calls for costs of enforcement against unlice...

Financial planning

ASIC has been rapped for ignoring multiple tip-offs about the $180 million Courtenay House Ponzi scheme, waiting four years to take regulatory action. ...

Financial planning

The victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme run by Sydney conwoman, Melissa Caddick, have received their first payout with further payouts expected....

Funds management

Morgan Stanley has joined Jefferies in being named as one of the banks that advised investors who have lost up to 40 per cent of their money in Carl Icahn’s NASDAQ-listed...

Financial planning

Athan Papoulias, former contractor to and promoter of Courtenay House investments, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for his role in the Ponzi scheme....

Financial planning

David Sipina has been charged with criminal offences relating to alleged misconduct at the Courtenay House group of companies....

Funds management

Provisional liquidators have been appointed to wind up five companies suspected of operating a ‘Ponzi scheme’, in a case involving two of Australia’s biggest banks....

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Financial planning

A South Australian mortgage broker has faced Adelaide Magistrates Court over a $12 million deception....

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

4 days 5 hours ago
Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

1 week 4 days ago
Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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