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Collapsed trading house hit with charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... with five offences, is alleged to have fabricated evidence related to Berndale funds in overseas bank accounts in Federal Court proceedings. D'Amore and Kirby are also alleged to have made a false statement or submitted false or misleading documents ...

TPB grilled over handling of PwC scandal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... that we haven't failed to deal with what's occurred here." In dealing with such matters, the TPB can apply to the Federal Court for an order for payment of a pecuniary penalty - something, Pocock pointed out, it has not done. "Why no fine? The average ...

AFCA outlines systemic issues in wealth management

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
... ASIC data, losses are estimated to be around $800 million, with the case now filed in the Victorian Registry of the Federal Court. Also pertaining to the investment sector, AFCA discovered a financial firm to be engaging in unauthorised trading, providing ...

Treasury consults on giving AFCA more super powers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
... Authority (AFCA) should have its remit expanded to deal with more complaints related to superannuation, following the Federal Court's MetLife decision. As it stands, under Part 7.10A of the Corporations Act, AFCA has certain statutory powers to deal ...

Investment fraud accomplice charged

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... alleged he used an unregistered investment scheme to defraud $36.5 million from nine investors. ASIC acted in the Federal Court to wind up the unregistered managed investment scheme operated by Marco and AMS Holdings (WA) Pty Ltd, the AMS Holdings Trust ...

Poor policy administration sees MLC Life pay $22m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... million in remediation, for failing to pay promised rehabilitation benefits. The life insurer was penalised by the Federal Court after it was found guilty of several breaches of the ASIC Act, the Corporations Act, and the Insurance Contracts Act between ...

AMP fined $24m for charging deceased customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
The Federal Court found AMP guilty of charging deceased customers life insurance premiums and advice fees, ordering it to pay $24 million in penalties. Justice Hespe today determined that four AMP subsidiaries - AMP Life, AMP Financial Planning, AMP ...

HCF Life under ASIC surveillance

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
The regulator has started civil proceedings in the Federal Court against the insurer after alleging it issued three types of insurance policies containing unfair and misleading contract terms. ASIC said the case involves standard form contracts issued ...

Class action commenced against IG Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
... further alleges that the company marketed and facilitated the trading of complex CFDs to inexperienced investors. "The Federal Court of Australia has described these products as "financial heroin hits" in the hands of unsophisticated retail investors," ...

Another round of consultation for veteran super taxation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... 2022, the government introduced legislation aimed at ensuring no veteran pays higher income taxes as a result of the Federal Court decision in Commissioner of Taxation v Douglas (Douglas decision). The Douglas decision found that certain veterans' ...