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Former adviser convicted over false documents

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... covered as it meant they had now met the duty of disclosure owed to the insurer. In 2017, the corporate regulator permanently banned Fong from providing financial services or engaging in credit activities. Three years later, Fong was charged and granted ...

BBY manager charged with aiding and abetting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
... serve a three-and-a-half-year community correction order, including 380 hours of community service. In November 2017, ASIC banned former BBY financial adviser Sergio Nicolo Belardo from providing financial services for 10 years for trading in clients' ...

ASIC freezes out former Magnolia Capital director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
ASIC has banned former Magnolia Capital Group director Mitchel Atkins from managing corporations and providing financial services. Atkins was a director of Magnolia Capital, which went bankrupt in 2022, owing unsecured creditors millions of dollars. ...

Decade-long ban reduced for former adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023
... to attend the AFL Grand Final and were shortly arrested by the Western Australian Police Force. From 11 March 2022, ASIC banned Babbage from providing financial services or engaging in credit activities for 10 years. He was also prohibited from controlling ...

Sterling Income Trust executives charged

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
... product disclosure statements (PDS) issued by Theta Asset Management (Theta) offering investments in the SIT. In 2021, ASIC banned Theta managing director Robert Patrick Marie for four years from the financial services industry for his involvement in ...

Financial services firms hit with criminal charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
Two businesses tied to permanently banned Sydney director David Sutton have been charged in separate proceedings following an investigation by ASIC. APC Securities, previously known as McFaddens Securities, and Brava Capital, formerly Dayton Way Securities ...

Piper Alderman investigates second CFD class action

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2023
... IG Markets and also represented traders who lost hundreds of millions. While CFDs are legal in Australia, they have been banned in many other countries, with the Federal Court of Australia describing these products as "financial heroin hits". In March ...

ASIC loses case against Diversa

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023
... Federal Court has found in favour of Diversa in the case brought by ASIC in 2021 which alleged the trustee knew about a now banned adviser's dodgy behaviour but failed to act. In October 2021, ASIC commenced civil penalty proceedings against Diversa ...

ASIC bans former PwC partner over tax scandal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
Disgraced former PwC head of international tax Peter-John Collins has been banned from providing financial services or controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business for eight years. At the start of the year, Collins was barred ...

AAT overturns ASIC ban on investment guru

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
... investment guru and DG Institute founder, from participating in credit activities and financial services. In 2022, Grubisa was banned for four years after ASIC found she was claiming to hold AFS and credit licences that she did not. The licence for her ...