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ASIC hits Melbourne adviser with travel ban

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has secured a travel restraint order against Melbourne-based adviser Barry King. The orders prevent King from leaving or attempting to leave Australia until 1 April 2025. They were made by ...

ASIC freezes assets of Melbourne based licensee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... Global is an Australian financial services business based in Melbourne which has held and Australian financial services license since 18 August 2017. The company described itself as an investment and financial advisory firm specialising in the provision ...

Penta Capital fined for fabricated FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ASIC has fined a firm for making several false statements that included claims it managed nearly $7 billion in assets when it does not. Queensland-based Penta Capital boasted on its website between May 2022 and February 2023 that it managed $6.9 billion ...

ASIC freezes out former Magnolia Capital director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
ASIC has banned former Magnolia Capital Group director Mitchel Atkins from managing corporations and providing financial services. Atkins was a director of Magnolia Capital, which went bankrupt in 2022, owing unsecured creditors millions of dollars. ...

ASIC cracks down on CFDs, OTC derivatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
ASIC continues to crack down on providers of contracts for difference (CFD), options and other high-risk products that flout their target market determinations (TMD), and design and distribution obligations (DDO). The newly published Report 770 Design ...

AMP fined $24m for charging deceased customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
The Federal Court found AMP guilty of charging deceased customers life insurance premiums and advice fees, ordering it to pay $24 million in penalties. Justice Hespe today determined that four AMP subsidiaries - AMP Life, AMP Financial Planning, AMP ...

ASIC case against Commonwealth Bank dismissed

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
The Federal Court has dismissed proceedings brought by ASIC against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) over fees. The court dropped allegations that the bank engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, made false or misleading representations ...

ASIC issues warning over brokers' high-risk offers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
ASIC has told brokers to be careful about or to reconsider offering high-risk products and services to retail investors as an increasing number offer securities trading. ASIC said it has seen increased instances of brokers offering securities trading ...

ASIC releases estimate cost recovery levies for 2021/22

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
ASIC has drafted its indicative levies for the 2021/22 financial year. In its latest cost recovery implementation statement, ASIC proposed a minimum levy of $1500 plus $1142 per adviser for licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on ...

Breach reporting guidance released

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
ASIC has released more details on how financial advisers providing advice to retail clients can comply with the upcoming breach reporting law. Information sheet 259 Complying with the notify, investigate and remediate obligations sets out further guidance ...