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Former Australian Unity adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
A former authorised representative of Australian Unity Personal Financial Services was handed a five-year ban for telling clients MySuper options are more expensive and to opt out of the products. Christopher Chan will serve a five-year ban for writing ...

Former Aon Hewitt adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
ASIC has banned a former authorised representative of Aon Hewitt from providing financial services for four years. Andrew Hills has been banned following ASIC surveillance. He was an authorised representative of Aon Hewitt from February 2009 to December ...

AAT affirms SMSF adviser ban

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld a ban imposed by ASIC on an SMSF adviser who failed to disclose significant conflicts of interest. In December 2019, Wayne Blazejczyk was banned by the regulator for five years after he was found ...

Adviser banned for five years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
A financial adviser who cycled through seven AFSLs in nine years has been banned after ASIC found he provided poor SMSF advice and based insurance advice on the commission he'd receive. The five-year ban follows ASIC surveillance of advice provided ...

Adviser bans fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
ASIC has revealed it adviser bans dropped by more than half in the second half of 2019, from 103 to 48. The figures were released in the regulator's half yearly ASIC Enforcement Update along with an outline of its enforcement strategy for 2020. However ...

Former ANZ adviser banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
ASIC has banned a Western Australia-based adviser from providing financial services for four years. The regulator said it had been surveilling Anthony Hilsley's activities when he was an authorised representative of RI Advice Group, owned at that time ...

Corrupt adviser banned, AFSL canned

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser from providing financial services for seven years and cancelled the AFS licence of his business. The corporate regulator found that Timothy Shapter had not provided advice in his client's best interests ...

Bristol Street adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
A financial adviser has been hit with an ASIC ban of five years after taking a one-size-fits-all approach to financial advice. Frazer Jon Muscat from Beenleigh in Queensland was banned after ASIC surveillance revealed that he failed to take into account ...

Former Gold Coast adviser banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
ASIC banned a former authorised representative of the now-defunct Austplan after clients were found to have been placed in a vulnerable financial position as a result of his advice. Gold Coast financial adviser Daniel Renneberg is banned from providing ...

Former Beacon adviser banned

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
A former Beacon Financial Group financial adviser was handed a permanent ban by ASIC. Phillip Emidio Bruni first provided advice in 2004 and worked at The FinancialLink Group for about two years ending 2017, ASIC's Financial Adviser Register shows. ...