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Ostrava wound up, directors banned

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... has made orders winding up Ostrava Equities and eight other companies associated with the Ostrava financial services business. The court also banned Bradley Grimm and Vanessa Ash, who is lawyer formally employed by ASIC, from providing financial services ...

Unlicensed product adviser receives four year ban

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... providing financial services for four years after it was found he had unlawfully carried on an unlicensed financial services business. Ronald Cross, chief executive and director of Park Trent Properties Group was banned after the Supreme Court of NSW ...

ASIC drops Macquarie AFSL conditions

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... financial services licensees can expect to see instances of non-compliance from time-to-time. An effective financial services business is therefore not expected to be a business that always avoids compliance issues, but rather a business that supports ...

Mercer appoints senior partner

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... Pacific market leadership team. Godfrey has held several senior and high impact roles within Mercer's financial services business over many years and was most recently promoted to the role of Mercer's financial services leader in April last year.

Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... decision to hold a joint forum with a financial services company. "The Academy sees working with a financial services business as having the potential for new insights into this component of the health and medical research agenda," Frazer said. "As a ...

Parliament passes FoFA amendments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... product, broadening the FoFA education and training provision to encompass training for "carrying on a financial services business," and "clarifies the application of the client-pays and intra-fund advice provisions to ensure they operate as intended." ...

FSC proposes Budget fixes to boost fin services exports

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has called on the Commonwealth Government to to use its May Budget to implement the 2009 Johnson Review recommendations to bolster the export of Australian financial services. Andrew Bragg, FSC Director of Policy ...

ASIC charges unlicensed SMSF loan provider

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... a credit provider under a credit contract." He has also been charged with one count of operating a financial services business without a licence, the maximum penalty for which is two years' imprisonment.

Property spruiker banned for providing unlawful advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... through an SMSF. The judge found that Park Trent Properties Group had been unlawfully carrying on a financial services business for over five years. ASIC launched legal proceedings in November 2014 against the group that, by June 2015 had advised over ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The success of technology start-ups and Australia's maturing venture capital sector are driving superannuation funds to reconsider VC as an asset class. In September, First State Super and Hostplus invested $110 million and $35 million respectively ...