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Hanson backs Dixon Advisory inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
A public inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory will soon launch after the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) gained support from Senator Pauline Hanson in the senate yesterday. After pounding the pavement for months, the FAAA has successfully ...

FAAA ramps up Dixon inquiry campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) is calling on all federal members of parliament to support a public inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and the flow-on effect on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). The FAAA has written ...

Story Wealth co-founder joins Kearney

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
Story Wealth Management Anne Graham has exited the business she co-founded to join Kearney Group, bringing along her book of clients. Graham is now a partner - integrated advice of Kearney's private wealth unit. Graham co-founded Story Wealth in 2016 ...

Former Courtenay House director sentenced

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
Former Courtenay House director Tony Iervasi has been sentenced to prison for 11 years, with a non-parole period of seven years, for his involvement in one of the nation's biggest Ponzi schemes. Between 13 December 2010 and 21 April 2017, Iervasi ...

Former adviser cops 12 years' imprisonment

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
Former financial adviser Ben Jayaweera will spend the next 12 years behind bars after he was found guilty of fraud again. Jayaweera was sentenced in a retrial at the Brisbane District Court yesterday after he was found guilty of 28 counts of fraud amounting ...

ASIC wins case against crypto exchange Kraken

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
ASIC has won its case against Bit Trade, the operator of Kraken in Australia, after the crypto exchange was found to have not complied with design and distribution obligations when offering a margin trading product to its customers. Bit Trade's ...

ASIC project foils scammers' operations

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
A year into its investment scam disruption project, ASIC has taken down more than 7300 phishing and investment scam websites. This includes the removal of 5530 fake investment platform scams since July 2023. It has also seen the closure of 1065 phishing ...

FAAA to work with Treasury on CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) said it has met with minister for financial services Stephen Jones to raise key concerns regarding the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood and chair David Sharpe ...

UK regulators propose framework for workplace pension schemes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
UK regulators have proposed rules for a new 'Value for Money' framework for default workplace defined contribution pension schemes, which has been likened to an "evolved version" of the APRA performance test. The joint framework, developed by the Financial ...

BitConnect promoter hit with good behaviour

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2024
The promoter of BitConnect who pleaded guilty to spruiking a fraudulent scheme has been handed a good behaviour order and escaped jail time. The District Court of New South Wales ordered John Bigatton on good behaviour for three years, starting from ...