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ASIC places travel restriction on First Guardian RE directors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
The Federal Court has granted a travel restriction order against Falcon Capital Limited directors David Anderson and Simon Selimaj, as the responsible entity of the First Guardian Master Fund, following an application from ASIC. The orders prohibit ...

ASIC takes action on Australian Fiduciaries

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... Multi-Strategy Fund. It ceased distributing units in the schemes in September 2023. ASIC said its application to the Federal Court seeks to preserve the assets of the scheme and obtain a clearer picture of the financial position of Australian Fiduciaries ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... 2024 CHESS batch settlement failure and fold it into the broader Inquiry. ASIC is currently suing the ASX in the Federal Court for allegedly making misleading statements related to its CHESS replacement project. "While this inquiry is underway, it is ...

ASIC alleges Choosi flogged Hannover life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
ASIC has taken Choosi to the Federal Court for allegedly failing to provide a range of comparable options on life and funeral insurance policies to customers and instead flogging products solely from Hannover Life Re. From at least 1 July 2019 and to ...

ASIC sues former director of crypto platform owing nearly $60m

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... million of which is owed to former customers of the exchange. ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Guo in relation to his dealings with customer funds on the basis of statements made about those dealings and failure ...

QSuper settles $67m class action

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... overcharged for life insurance premiums. The settlement for the class action, which was brought against the fund in the Federal Court in November 2021, still requires court approval and is without admission of liability. Shine Lawyers, which initiated ...

Count Financial class action dismissed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... charged some clients ongoing service fees in circumstances where they did not provide them any ongoing service. The Federal Court determined that Count had systems in place to enable it to monitor compliance by Count advisers with their statutory and ...

ASIC takes Block Earner case to High Court

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... Federal Court's decision, now seeking special leave from the High Court in its case against Block Earner. The Federal Court decision found that a product issued by Block Earner, which allowed consumers to earn fixed yield returns from lending specified ...

Zurich fined over false and misleading statements

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
Zurich Australia has paid two infringement notices totalling $37,560 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over alleged false and misleading statements to two policyholders. In May 2024, Zurich declined two trauma insurance ...

NAB MySuper class action settlement approved

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The Federal Court approved the $65 million settlement that was reached in December. At the end of 2024, MLC Super Fund, NULIS Nominees and MLC Nominees agreed to settle the class action that was brought against it for deferring the transition of members ...