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Natalie Cameron named AFCA lead ombudsman

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022
... and advice and as acting lead ombudsman in banking and finance. Locke continued: "Natalie has a passion for access to justice and delivering fair outcomes for both consumers and financial firms. She is a highly capable lawyer and she has an open and ...

Former adviser wins appeal, convictions quashed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2019 will have his case retried, having successfully argued there was a miscarriage of justice. Ben Jayaweera was a financial adviser and director of now-defunct Growth Plus Financial Group, based in Queensland. In ...

ASIC freezes assets of unlicensed property mogul

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... social media and described as "the fastest growing property mentoring company in Australia", ASIC said. The presiding Justice Beach ordered that A Team, Sash Investment Holdings, and Hopkins' assets be frozen, that they disclose their existing assets ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn't make the list! ESG is a scam. It has been weaponised by phony social justice warriors." The billionaire he said he believed that Tesla had done more for the environment than any company ever.. In a more ...

Federal Court rules against RI Advice in cybersecurity case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
... the risks across its network and will engage a cybersecurity expert to determine if any further measures are necessary. Justice Rofe said cybersecurity should be front of mind for all licensees, adding: "Cybersecurity risk forms a significant risk connected ...

Six cases brought against Westpac now finalised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... banking giant to pay a total of $113 million in penalties. A decision in the final of the six matters, all overseen by Justice Beach, was handed down today and saw Westpac fined $40 million for continuing to charge financial advice fees to close to 12,000 ...

Mayfair sues Mission Beach lender

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... Federal Court chose to restrain Mawhinney from promoting and raising funds through financial products for 20 years after Justice Anderson found Mawhinney had been "involved in multiple contraventions" of financial services law. The judge described Mawhinney's ...

Mawhinney appeals 20-year ban

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2022
... Federal Court chose to restrain Mawhinney from promoting and raising funds through financial products for 20 years after Justice Anderson found Mawhinney had been "involved in multiple contraventions" of financial services law. The judge described Mawhinney's ...

BT Funds Management fined $20m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... one of the six filed by ASIC at once in November 2021 and the first to see a judgement. In handing down his decision, Justice Beach made note of the fact the unlawful deduction of amounts from member accounts eroded their super balances. The commissions ...

Labor vows to review YFYS test

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... said. "Benchmarking is right, we think the metrics we have in place over the long term are not. They're doing rough justice at the moment, but if left alone for another decade, they'll do more rough than justice. "We will definitely look at some ...