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AFA responds to Quality of Advice Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... typified by significant vertical integration, however, the market has changed, and conflicted remuneration has largely been banned. It is appropriate to ask what the utility of an FSG is for advised clients now, especially given other disclosure documents ...

HESTA impact lead goes it alone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... Plan promoted the company's steps to progress the voice of First Nation's Peoples while the company simultaneously banned Traditional Owners from speaking publicly on matters of heritage and mining leases. "It is this integrity gap that the emerging ...

Mayfair 101 files new appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... these reports contained incomplete information. Mayfair 101 founder and managing director James Mawhinney - who has been banned from fundraising or advertising financial products for 20 years - maintains ASIC made mistakes in prosecuting Mayfair. "Our ...

Former Spaceship chief executive banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
The former chief executive of Spaceship has been banned from providing financial services after ASIC found he had an employee complete AICD assessments on his behalf. The investigation found Paul Kevin Bennetts, who led both Spaceship's managed ...

ASIC bans adviser for two years

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
ASIC has banned Sydney-based financial adviser Christopher Betalli from providing financial services for two years. Betalli has been banned from providing financial services for two years. Following a review by the corporate regulator, Betalli, who ...

Disqualified adviser convicted of managing company

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... who defrauded clients $6 million has been convicted of managing a corporation while disqualified. Melinda Scott, who was banned from managing corporations for 25 years until 2 December 2037, set up and ran Driven by Results, a chauffeur business, as ...

ASIC bans two Sydney based advisers

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
ASIC has banned the directors of Premier Wealth Management from providing financial advice, while also stripping the firm of its AFS licence. The corporate regulator announced on Tuesday (December 14) it has banned Sydney-based financial advisers Gerald ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... state that they exclude controversial weapons, they do not include nuclear weapons as controversial despite also being banned by an international treaty. AustralianSuper, Aware Super, BT Funds Management, CareSuper, Cbus, Colonial First State, Commonwealth ...

LIC appoints former Wallaby as director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... Australia. He also worked at Bell Potter Securities as managing director of corporate broking for seven years. In 2017, ASIC banned Poidevin for five years for partaking in trading DirectMoney shares that had the effect of creating an artificial price ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... executive director Peter Johnston said. "Why 'pop gun'? As with all other ASIC actions against banks, no person is ever banned [they run and hide in another department], ASIC get a headline, bank shareholders pay the fine and behaviour does not ...