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Mining company shares manipulator sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2023
One of the three men involved in manipulating Quantum Resources shares back in 2015 has been sentenced in the Supreme Court. Don George Evans was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to 12 months in prison, to be released immediately ...

More DASS complainants flock to AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
The number of Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services complainants continues to grow as more former clients have come forward to the financial complaints body for potential compensation. The number of complainants has grown by about 100 to 1700 as ...

Associations call for improved access to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
The Joint Association Working Group (JAWG) has urged the government to improve access to financial advice through the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) proposals. In a letter to assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones, the ...

FPA, SMSFA launch specialist pathway

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
The associations have combined to offer CFPs an express pathway for completing the SMSF Specialist Advisor designation. The express pathway will be available to FPA members holding the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation, who will be exempt ...

Brighter Super revamps board structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
Having maintained a 15-person board to oversee the integration of Energy Super and Suncorp's superannuation business, Brighter Super kicked off 2023 with a new board composition including a new appointment. As of this month, Brighter Super's ...

Paraplanners happy to stay put: Survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
According to the Paraplanner Hub and Tanngo's Australian Paraplanner Survey 2022, less and less paraplanners (80%) are wanting to become financial advisers. Paraplanners don't want to move into advising because they don't want to be in client ...

ASIC takes action against more greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
ASIC has continued its crackdown on greenwashing, having recently fined two more entities over alleged false or misleading statements. Earlier this month, ASIC announced it fined superannuation trustee Diversa Trustees $13,320. Diversa is the issuer ...

Federal Court finds against finfluencer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
The Federal Court determined Tyson Scholz, known as ASX Wolf, was running an unlicensed financial services business for over a year, including providing courses on share trading and recommending stocks on Instagram. The court handed its decision down ...

ASIC takes civil action against Firstmac

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
ASIC has commenced the first ever court case against a financial product distributor for alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations (DDO). The regulator commenced the civil penalty action in the Federal Court against Firstmac Limited following ...

Adviser imprisoned for super fraud

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
Former Perth financial adviser Rahul Goel has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing over $35,000 from his clients' superannuation accounts. An ASIC investigation into Goel's misconduct found that between November 2018 and July 2019, the ...