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Former Queensland adviser struck off permanently

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
Former Sunshine Coast financial adviser Brett Gordon has been permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activities following his conviction for fraud offences last month. This prohibition extends to any role within ...

Stockland, Invesco Real Estate forge land lease deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
Stockland has joined forces with Invesco Real Estate (IRE) to establish a land lease communities project tipped to be worth $1.1 billion. The open-ended partnership, which is based on Stockland's 50.1% interest and IRE's flagship pan-Asian core ...

Former director sentenced to seven years in prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
The former director of DanFX, an unlicensed foreign exchange trading business, has been sentenced to seven years and three months imprisonment for fraud. Daniel Farook Ali was sentenced in the Brisbane District Court after an investigation by the Australian ...

APRA hits Mercer with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... conditions on Mercer Super to ensure it addresses risk management and compliance management deficiencies identified by the regulator. The risk management and compliance management deficiencies were identified as part of APRA's ongoing prudential supervision ...

abrdn global chief executive steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024
The global chief executive of abrdn will step down at the end of June after four years in the top job. Stephen Bird and the board of abrdn "have together agreed that it is the right time for Stephen to hand over the reins to the team" effective June ...

ASIC places stop orders on Trademax Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
ASIC issued two interim stop orders to Trademax Australia after it found the broker was relying on a poorly designed questionnaire which retail investors were able to attempt multiple times to determine they were in the target market. The business is ...

SEC approves eight Ethereum ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved eight Ethereum ETFs for BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Bitwise, VanEck, Ark, Invesco Galaxy and Franklin Templeton. This comes after the commission approved Bitcoin ETFs back in March this year. ...

UK forewarns Australia on wholesale test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
After recently backflipping on changing its high-net-worth investor (HNWI) tests, the UK serves as a cautionary tale for Australia as it mulls overhauling its own wholesale investor thresholds. The UK government introduced new HNWI and sophisticated ...

SMSFs' use of advisers plummets: Research

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
The number of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) using advisers has reached a new low, with the proportion of SMSFs using advisers falling to 23% from 27% in the past 12 months, according to a Vanguard/Investment Trends report. The number of SMSFs without ...

ASIC issues experienced pathway guidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... financial advisers who could potentially qualify as experienced providers and skip further education and training. The regulator today released Information Sheet 281 FAQS: Relevant providers - Accessing the experienced provider pathway (INFO 281) as ...