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ASIC nudges trustees on member fund compliance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... for dealing with application monies to achieve compliance, improving disclosures about application funds, and notifying ASIC of any reportable situations or paying remediation. Meanwhile, ASIC also reached out to major auditing firms and industry bodies ...

Former Octaviar director sees charges dropped

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... MFS Group former chief executive Michael Christodoulou King was declared bankrupt after he failed to pay a penalty to ASIC of $300,000. MFS Group, later Octaviar, collapsed in 2008 owing $2.5 billion. It was a publicly listed company.

Former adviser sentenced over dishonesty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
A former financial adviser will serve a three-year correctional order, including home detention, for providing fabricated evidence as part of an ASIC investigation. Ezzat-Daniel Nesseim was sentenced to a three-year intensive correctional order after ...

Federal Court fines Mayfair $30m

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021
... investors searched for terms such as 'bank term deposits' and 'best term deposit'. In response, Mawhinney's lawyers accused ASIC of a 'trial by media'. Mawhinney has continued to defend himself through widely distributed media releases. The subsidiaries ...

Disgraced former fund manager chief declared bankrupt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
... chief executive of MFS Group - later known as Octaviar - has been declared bankrupt after he failed to pay a penalty to ASIC of $300,000. The Federal Court made the order against Michael Christodoulou King based on the unpaid penalty even though such ...

Mawhinney lawyer accuses ASIC of trial by media

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021
Embattled Mayfair 101 founder James Mawhinney's lawyer has accused ASIC of conducting a trial by media. Roberts Gray Lawyers, representing Mawhinney, accused the regulator of issuing a media release announcing contempt proceedings against Mawhinney ...

ASIC shuts down unlicensed investment scheme

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
An unlicensed financial services firm that allegedly misappropriated $5.7 million from self-managed superannuation fund members is in the process of being shut down by ASIC. ASIC obtained interim orders and injunctions from the Queensland Federal Court ...

ASIC bans adviser, cancels AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... determinations on time. In addition, Trade Wind FS did not lodge its 2019 and 2020 audited financial accounts and failed to notify ASIC of the change in the key person for the AFSL. "AFSL holders must comply with their licence conditions and have adequate ...

Shipton to leave ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced ASIC chair James Shipton will leave the regulator in the coming months, despite being cleared by Vivian Thom's review of ASIC Governance. Releasing the review findings today, Frydenberg said he and Shipton ...

Mawhinney lashes out at regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Mayfair 101 founder James Mawhinney has accused ASIC of a witch hunt, saying a provisional liquidators' report proves M101 Nominees had no "smoking gun" - but the report actually refers to the company's business model as unsustainable. A provisional ...