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Federal Government names Royal Commission lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... of Australia from 1997 to 2015, having previously served on the Victorian Court of Appeal and as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. "Hayne's wealth of experience at the highest levels of Australia's judiciary makes him the ideal person to conduct ...

Impact of dementia on estate planning efficacy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... Trustees wills and estates accredited specialist Anna Hacker explained that statutory wills, approved by the relevant Supreme Court and signed on behalf of someone who no longer has the capacity to make or update a will, are allowed in every state of ...

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 ...

Former AMP adviser banned for $2.5m fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
... obtained money to gamble and also replace funds already misappropriated. On 23 June 2017 Noonan pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Tasmania to 97 counts of fraud and 10 counts of stealing. He was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison, with ...

Former Garvan adviser banned for $2.4m theft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... regulator, having been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to 25 counts of stealing in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on 2 March 2017, following a police investigation. Over the course of four years Mitchell misappropriated about ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, bans former executives and fund managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... services 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 ...

ASIC bans former Avestra directors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... investigation has led to the winding up of another investment manager: Courtenay House Capital Trading Group. The Supreme Court of NSW has made consent orders and appointed Grant Thornton to liquidate two Courtenay House companies. These orders follow ...

Adviser contravenes FoFA obligations

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... counts of fraud under s408c of the Queensland Criminal Code. In 2015, ASIC filed a successful application in the Supreme Court of Queensland alleging that Munro breached s911A of the Corporations Act by carrying on a financial services business without ...

Estate agents to become RG146 certified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... provision of a course for real estate agents in regards to property advice after an October 2015 decision by the Supreme Court of NSW against Park Trent Properties Group regarding advice provided by agents as it relates to SMSFs. Discussing the new certification ...

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 ...