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Former adviser wins appeal, convictions quashed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... of justice. Ben Jayaweera was a financial adviser and director of now-defunct Growth Plus Financial Group, based in Queensland. In 2019 he was found guilty of six charges of dishonestly causing detriment to clients when, between 2013 and 2015, he advised ...

Goldsky director charged

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... with Goldsky in 2018 and receivers were appointed to wind up the Goldsky companies. Then in 2019, the Queensland Supreme Court declared Goldsky had breached the Corporations Act by operating a financial services business without an Australian Financial ...

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 ...

Adviser asked to cover regulator costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
The Queensland Supreme Court has issued orders against a man who ran an unlicensed advice business and collected kickbacks on investment properties he recommended to his SMSF clients. Richard Gardner and Advanced Wealth Financial Services Pty Ltd (where ...

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 takes financial planner to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
ASIC is taking a Queensland-based financial planner to the Supreme Court, after his licensee reported him to the corporate regulator. Brett Andrew Gordon operated a financial planning business, Refocus Financial Group on the Sunshine Coast. He held ...

Wills should be reviewed, not refuted: EQT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... capital gains tax and ensuring any consequences are sufficiently managed. Just last week a judge in the Queensland Supreme Court deemed an unsent text message containing a dead man's final wishes could be legally treated as a valid will. The man drafted ...

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
... declarations of contraventions and financial penalties. Separately, an ASIC led investigation has led to the arrest of Queensland based financial adviser Dr Roger Gareth Munro following five counts of fraud under s408c of the Queensland Criminal Code. ...

Federal Court dismisses ASIC allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... representing about 12,000 domestic and offshore investors. Of that amount, $400 million was invested in LPF. The Queensland Supreme Court ordered Drake to surrender his passport in 2013 and froze his assets; ASIC at the time alleged that he "used his ...
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