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Gold Coast advice firm enters EU over misleading ads

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
Gold Coast-based financial planning and property management business Equanimity Concepts has entered into an enforceable undertaking (EU) with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The regulator found that from January 2012 to ...

First Super to vote against CBA board members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
First Super will vote against the re-election of two Commonwealth Bank (CBA) board members who served during the bank's financial advice scandal. The fund will use its vote at the forthcoming CBA annual general meeting on November 12 and will oppose ...

Sophisticated investor register launched

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
A new online investor registry, aimed at modernising the compliance process for certifying sophisticated and wholesale investors, has been launched by Sophisticated Access (SA). The real-time registry, known as Cygura, is for investors and their accountants ...

Astarra director banned, loses AAT appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has backed the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) decision to permanently ban former Astarra director Eugene Liu from providing financial services. AAT senior member Jan Redfern said: "there ...

Share trader jailed over $260,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
A share trader was jailed for 18 months for fraudulently misappropriating $260,000 from two investors and using the money for his own personal benefit. New South Wales-based William John Jones will serve 10 months before being eligible for parole. He ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
The share market is flat after Westpac's cash profit rise and supermarket giant Woolworths's sales figures failed to excite investors. While Australia's second largest home lender lifted its full year cash profit by eight per cent to $7.63 billion ...

ASIC pays commissioners $2.9m in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The five top executives at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will receive a total salary of $2.9 million for 2014, about $10,000 less than in 2013. The ASIC annual report did not match the name of each commissioner with the ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Abbott government's announcement of an improved register for the beleaguered practitioners was marred by an embarrassing blunder. Treasury was forced to issue a rare apology after mistakenly making the announcement under the name of suspended frontbencher ...

ASIC demands last resort compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... regulator made the demand in its submission to the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into forestry managed investment schemes (MIS) and in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). ASIC noted that the effectiveness of professional indemnity ...

RI sector outperforms ASX 300: Lonsec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
The responsible investment (RI) sector has outperformed the ASX 300 over one and three year periods, according to Lonsec's Australian & Global Equity Responsible Investment Sector Review. The report revealed that Lonsec's Australian equity RI peer group ...