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Aussie at center of international scheme

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... millions. Matthew Lloyd McPhee ran a scheme known as My Online Business Education (MOBE). It promised consumers financial freedom via a 21-step program so investors could run their own online marketing business. An ongoing investigation came to head ...

TAL loses super fund mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
TAL has lost a group insurance mandate following a comprehensive review by the super fund's trustee. Members of Freedom of Choice, an offering under the AMG Super umbrella, have been notified that TAL will no longer provide their group insurance ...

Freedom Insurance appoints liquidators

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... Pauline Vamos, Maxwell James Green and Doug Halley filed their resignations as directors to the liquidators. On Friday, Freedom indicated it was nearly at the end of the journey, but was waiting on ASIC to give the final clearance. "ASIC has advised ...

Short seller bites the dust

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... that Bonitas thought it could not be sued in Australia. Instead, Wiechert reminded his opponent of the US's strong freedom of speech laws and Rural's connection to the US through its investors and hung in the possibility of a defamation suit ...

Former licensee boss banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... necessary to ensure financial services provided were done so efficiently, honestly and fairly. Spectrum was a subsidiary of Freedom Insurance Group. After being issued with a notice of hearing by ASIC, Freedom applied to have Spectrum's licence cancelled. ...

Argo Investments' profit plunges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... as adding to existing holdings. These include investments in Amcor, AP Eagers, Corporate Travel Management, Downer EDI, Freedom Foods, Ramsay Health Care, Rural Funds Group, Treasury Wine Estates and Tassal Group. Argo fully exited its position in Automotive ...

Government ignored ASIC over LIC carve-out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
Documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal the government ignored ASIC's advice to not create a carve-out for LICs and LITs in the Future of Financial Advice conflicted commission ban. According to documents published last week under ...

Consumer data right for open banking delayed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... competition and allows consumers to find products that are better suited to their needs and wants, and gives them more freedom to switch between providers. The banking sector will be the first to see the effects of CDR, but it will lately be rolled out ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... out of the office. Johns pointed out that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability protects people's freedom to make their own decisions - understanding this, he said, is one of the key ways to provide dignified financial services to ...

Super investment menus not what they seem: Rice Warner

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... clear choice explosion had not always been driven by member demand but instead by the supply side, he added. "While the freedom to choose is always a good thing, for super funds, so much choice has come at a big cost. It pushes up their administration ...