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Victorian AR charged with providing unlicensed advice

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2022
... director, responsible manager and key person under The Australian Dealer Group's licence. In March 2021, ASIC permanently banned him from providing financial services and engaging in credit activities, controlling a financial services or credit business ...

Ministers told to divest shareholdings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... decisions, and the fund or trust does not invest significantly in one particular business sector. Blind trusts are explicitly banned under the code. In divesting, it will not be acceptable to transfer investments to a family member or to a nominee or ...

Former adviser charged over faked books

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
... clients, to look like he was compliant with his obligations as an authorised representative. In 2019, Nguyen was permanently banned by ASIC for his dishonest conduct with the regulator saying he is likely to contravene financial services law in future ...

Barred adviser breaches ASIC order

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... Toledo has been fined $1500 after pleading guilty to three charges of breaching an ASIC banning order. In 2017, Toledo was banned from providing financial services for seven years after ASIC found he had failed to act in the best interests of his clients ...

Spaceship chair banned for two years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
The chair of Spaceship Capital has been banned by ASIC for failing to understand all the financial services offered by the group. Paul Ernest Dortkamp has been banned from performing functions as an officer and responsible manager of a financial services ...

ASIC bans financial adviser for five years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Sydney financial adviser Walter Yaolong Guan has been banned for five years after operating without a licence. ASIC found that between March 2017 and August 2021, Guan, through his company Perennial Growth, carried on a financial services business when ...

Charges laid in lengthy ASIC investigation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022
A former financial adviser who was permanently banned in 2016 for using close to $2 million in client funds for his own use has now been charged with 17 offences related to the alleged fraudulent transfer of shares to himself. Ashley Howard of Hobart ...

Six cases brought against Westpac now finalised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... included commissions and some paying commissions to financial advisers through their premiums despite commissions having been banned. This impacted just shy of 10,000 members. Another of the cases involved inadequate fee disclosure by the Westpac, Securitor ...

UBS Australia could be banned from Papua New Guinea

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
Investment banking giant UBS could be banned from Papua New Guinea and forced to repay tens of millions as a Royal Commission uncovers questionable conduct. A Royal Commission will shortly deliver its verdict in PNG after examining a 2014 decision by ...

Modern Slavery Act needs strengthening: Panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... are up for considerations. The panel pointed to actions in the US, where Malaysian disposable glove manufacturers were banned from selling into the US because of instances of modern slavery in their manufacture. Carlsson said that a federal Anti-Slavery ...