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Former adviser wins appeal, convictions quashed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... years' prison with a non-parole period of six years. However, last week the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland ordered Jayaweera face a retrial, on grounds including that the trial judge's directions to the jury resulted in a miscarriage ...

Former adviser faces fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... previously the director of Refocus Financial Group and Diverse Capital Management. In July 2018, the Supreme Court of Queensland made orders to wind up Refocus following an application by ASIC, restraining Gordon from carrying on a financial services ...

Former adviser faces Supreme Court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
A former financial adviser will face ASIC in the Supreme Court of Queensland for operating an unlicensed advice business and receiving kickbacks from property developers for referring investors. The corporate regulator has commenced proceedings against ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, bans former executives and fund managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... industry," ASIC commissioner John Price said. The corporate regulator was also recently successful in the Supreme Court of Queensland, with the court disqualifying four former executives and the fund managers of MFS Investment Management from managing ...

Adviser contravenes FoFA obligations

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... fraud under s408c of the Queensland Criminal Code. In 2015, ASIC filed a successful application in the Supreme Court of Queensland alleging that Munro breached s911A of the Corporations Act by carrying on a financial services business without as AFSL ...

MFSIM execs use $143.5m in client money to repay debts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... now known as ACN, have been found liable for breaching their directors' and officers' duties by the Supreme Court of Queensland. The MFS Group, subsequantly known as Octaviar, collapsed in 2008 owing $2.5 billion. ASIC launched civil action in 2009 ...

Court freezes LM Investment Management founder's assets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... Management founder Peter Drake has had his assets frozen and been forced to surrender his passport by the Supreme Court of Queensland following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). LM Investment Management went ...

ASIC winds up 3 fraudulent QLD financial services companies

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
The Supreme Court of Queensland has ordered three financial services companies to be wound up after they defrauded approximately $1 million between May and October 2012. An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation discovered ...

KordaMentha appointed trustee to LM fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
The Supreme Court of Queensland has appointed KordaMentha and its affiliate firm, Calibre Capital Limited, as joint trustees of the LM Managed Performance Fund (LMPF). The Fund is the second largest mortgage investment fund in the LM group and has raised ...

Former investment company director pleads guilty

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... some living in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. On June 13, 2012, ASIC obtained consent orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland to wind up Tanoak Pty Ltd and another company of which Ms Oakley was sole director, Fintel Financial Intelligence Pty Ltd. ...
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