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ASIC bans married duo from providing financial services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
ASIC has banned former financial adviser Richard Thomas Marshall from providing financial services for six years, and his wife Gwenda Jean Marshall for three years for operating unlicensed and removing money from a deceased client's account. An ASIC ...

ASIC bans Sterling & Freeman director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
ASIC has banned Wayne Christopher Saman, the sole director of Sterling & Freeman Advisory for a period of five years. Saman was banned because an ASIC surveillance found he was involved in Sterling & Freeman's contravention of financial laws. Sterling ...

ASIC bans Melbourne adviser

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2022
The corporate regulator has dealt out a three-year ban to David Noel Ruthenberg of Venture Advisory Consulting. ASIC found that, between June 2015 and September 2017, Ruthenberg recommended that some of his clients invest in the Investport Income Opportunity ...

ASIC bans financial adviser for five years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Sydney financial adviser Walter Yaolong Guan has been banned for five years after operating without a licence. ASIC found that between March 2017 and August 2021, Guan, through his company Perennial Growth, carried on a financial services business when ...

ASIC bans adviser for two years

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
ASIC has banned Sydney-based financial adviser Christopher Betalli from providing financial services for two years. Betalli has been banned from providing financial services for two years. Following a review by the corporate regulator, Betalli, who ...

ASIC bans two Sydney based advisers

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
ASIC has banned the directors of Premier Wealth Management from providing financial advice, while also stripping the firm of its AFS licence. The corporate regulator announced on Tuesday (December 14) it has banned Sydney-based financial advisers Gerald ...

ASIC bans adviser over Linchpin, Endeavour fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
The corporate regulator banned a Queensland-based financial adviser for three years after recommending clients into the Investport Income Opportunity Fund. Keith Robert McDermott was an authorised representative of The FinancialLink Group and has been ...

ASIC bans adviser, cancels AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
The corporate regulator banned a Gold Coast-based financial adviser from providing financial services for four years and cancelled the associated AFSL for failure to comply with its general obligations. ASIC found that Frederick Steven Ackerman failed ...

ASIC bans adviser, cancels AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
The corporate regulator has banned a Gold Coast-based adviser for five years and cancelled the group's AFS licence over misconduct. Adam Bevan was an authorised representative and sole director of Trade Wind Financial Services. ASIC banned Bevan after ...

ASIC bans adviser over $5m fraud

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
ASIC has permanently banned former Sentinel Wealth financial adviser Gavin Fineff, after he was charged with misappropriating between $3.3 and $5 million of client money. On May 7, Fineff was arrested and charged by New South Wales Police with 18 offences ...