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Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... police kicked off investigations in March 2020, when the North Shore Police Area Command received reports of an alleged fraud committed against an 86-year-old woman and received more tip offs from other alleged victims thereafter. Fineff was a member ...

Government opens consultation on key advice reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... in a position that compromises their ability to practice as a financial adviser, such as being insolvent or convicted of fraud. They may also have contravened a financial services law, or have breached the education and training requirements or the Code ...

Mawhinney banned for 20 years

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... ASIC was prosecuting him for a crime that was never committed and said that there was no misappropriation of funds and no fraud on his behalf. Although Mayfair 101's products were allegedly marketed to wholesale, sophisticated investors Financial Standard ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... Commission (SEC) had conducted five major investigations into Madoff, dating back to 1992, but had failed to find evidence of his fraud for over a decade. Madoff was at one point the chair of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He ran a brokerage, Bernard L. ...

Aussies to lose $100m to fraudsters

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... million last year and are tipped to lose up to $100 million in 2021. This is according to Finbold, which found that investment fraud was the number one scam that prey Australians. Dating and romance scams (23%) were the next most prevalent. False billings ...

Vanguard targeted in bond fund scam

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Vanguard is the latest fund manager to have its branding used by scammers spruiking fraudulent bond funds. The asset manager said scammers are buying advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When a person ...

Insider trading forum busted

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has busted an internet forum where people were selling "insider tips" on listed companies. California man James Roland Jones was charged with perpetuating a fraudulent scheme to sell what he claimed were ...

Banks still failing customers after Royal Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... revealed many customers have still been facing irresponsible lending, charging of incorrect fees, poor customer service, fraud, and unfair terms and conditions. CHOICE chief executive Alan Kirkland called out the banks for not stepping up to the plate ...

Mawhinney not dishonest, just irresponsible: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... the hearing, Mawhinney distributed a press release which claimed the court had heard that ASIC confirmed no dishonesty or fraud on his part. "ASIC's action has ruined the lives of hundreds of Mayfair 101's investors who invested over $210 million, for ...

ATO begins stimulus fraud convictions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... the ATO that he had been dishonest in his applications. ATO deputy commissioner Will Day welcomed the conviction, saying fraud against the stimulus measures is fraud against the community, effectively stealing from the pockets of taxpayers at a time ...