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Planners should not face criminal charges: FPA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... financial planners who have made administrative oversights. "A jail sentence of up to five years is clearly an excessive sanction for failing to provide, what is in essence, a confirmation of advice already given orally. A criminal sanction should be ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Australian stocks were down across the board at midday, as profit-takers moved in and the local bourse bucked a mixed international lead. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 44 points lower to 5951, while the all ordinaries lost 39.6 points ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
The Australian market is expected to open in the black, although Wall Street has not provided a strong lead, wobbling to a mixed finish on Friday as better-than-expected economic data was offset by worries that US trade sanctions slapped on China might ...

Online customer checking tool launched by Deloitte

... World-Check's comprehensive database of people and companies considered to be of a high or heightened risk including 100 sanction and embargo lists. Intelligence contained in World-Check is gathered from over 200,000 sources worldwide." Phillipps adds ...

Fraud reforms to cost much more than FSR

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2004
The cost to Australian businesses of reforms directed at money laundering is expected to be very large and take at least three years to implement, the 2004 Australian Fraud Summit heard yesterday. Speaking on money laundering and terrorist financing ...

Morningstar retains weak rating for AXA's international 'growth-style' equity portfolio

Ratings agency Morningstar has opted to leave AXA/Alliance Capital's international growth-style equity strength rating unchanged at two out of five, despite the resignation of two Alliance directors and an admission from Alliance it was likely to face ...

Jail, rather than fines, needed for corporate crime, says lawyer

... where people make huge profits from causing serious financial suffering to others - fines and loss of reputation are not sanction enough." He said the jailing of former West Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond in the wake of the collapse of his $9 billion ...

ASFA hails new co-contribution super arrangements

... time of their re-election in 2001," said Philippa Smith, ASFA chief executive. If the new measures receive Parliamentary sanction then (from July this year) people earning up to $40,000 per annum will be eligible for the super co-contribution - instead ...

Adelaide financial adviser sentenced to a year in jail

David Mudge, former financial adviser from Windsor Gardens in Adelaide, has been sentenced in Adelaide's District Court on a charge arising out of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation. Mudge was convicted and sentenced ...

Government backs Dawson Committee findings

The Federal Treasurer has backed the findings of the Dawson Committee to review the competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974, it has announced. The report by the committee, led by Sir Daryl Dawson, was also well received by the Australian ...