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ASIC bans advisers for dodgy Shield Master Fund advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
... have copped bans from the regulator. Matthew Simon Bradley has ceased working in financial services for eight years after ASIC found he advised certain clients to invest most of their superannuation into Shield Master Fund's High Growth class or the ...

CSLR releases revised levy estimate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... numbers do not include any allowance for the impact of either Shield or First Guardian, although numerous announcements by ASIC suggest these are very substantial matters where financial advice complaints are likely. "This paints a picture of multiple ...

ASIC targets advisers, platforms, research houses in super switching scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
ASIC warns it will take a deeper dive into the roles that financial advisers, superannuation platforms and research houses are playing in members being pushed into high-risk investment schemes. The corporate regulator is closely looking at the entire ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Financial Services Group Australia (FSGA), which has links to the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. FSGA's responsible manager (RM) Graham Holmes has also been permanently banned from working in the ...

Shield Master Fund terminated, new receivers for Keystone Asset Management

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... Master Fund. The fund was available on Macquarie Wrap, and Equity Trustees' NQ Super and Super Simplifier platforms. ASIC began its investigation in February 2024 to halt new investment offers and then made interim stop orders on four product disclosure ...

ASIC freezes assets Shield, First Guardian marketer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
ASIC has frozen the assets of Rashid Alshakshir, who facilitated leads to the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, as it investigates his links with property fund manager and developer Paul Chiodo. Alshakshir has ties to the funds, according ...

Falcon Capital, First Guardian Master Fund set for liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
ASIC is attempting to liquidate responsible entity Falcon Capital, wind up the First Guardian Master Fund, as well as impose a receiver and manager to director David Anderson's personal property. The regulator has put into motion the applications ...

Freezing order slapped on First Guardian Master Fund, Falcon Capital

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
ASIC has taken action to freeze the assets of the First Guardian Master Fund and its responsible entity Falcon Capital nearly one year after investors were locked out from accessing their funds. The First Guardian Master Fund is run by First Guardian ...

Court acts against two with links to Shield Master Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
The Federal Court has made orders against two individuals in connection to ASIC's investigation into the Shield Master Fund collapse. The $480 million Shield Master Fund collapse will likely see its 5800-plus investors cop significant losses, with the ...

Jones flags drafting of Tranche 2 legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... on those existing financial advisers who are striving to meet the education standard by the deadline of 1 January 2026." ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland, who also spoke at the event, said one of ASIC's key priorities this year is to curb financial advice ...