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Court rejects Linchpin director appeal

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... Linchpin was also the Responsible Entity of the Investport Income Opportunity Fund, an unregistered managed investment scheme. Early this year, the court found Daly improperly used his position, failed to take reasonable steps to ensure compliance, exercise ...

Early release of super scammer sent to prison

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
A Western Australian woman who illegally obtained $202,000 for herself and others via an early release of superannuation scam has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The unnamed High Wycombe woman was sentenced at the Perth District Court ...

ART, Perennial back debt collection fintech

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... better experience managing debt," Foreman said. Second Quarter Ventures is also purchasing shares from "angel investors" and early employees to participate, the company added. "While our vision is global, I'm incredibly proud that this raise consists ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... August, Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker recorded the highest level of mortgage stress since it first began tracking in early 2019. More than two in five (42%) homeowners struggled to pay their home loan in August with an estimated 1.4 million mortgagors ...

Court freezes assets of company director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... purchase a luxury motor vehicle, and real estate at Surfers Paradise in Queensland. "Even though ASIC's investigation is at an early stage, the evidence presently before the Court is quite extensive," Yates said. He rose concerns that some of the companies ...

Hanson backs Dixon Advisory inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... played, and why ASIC failed to adequately investigate and take action in a timely way, despite numerous complaints from as early as 2008," she said. "An inquiry is essential to understanding the full scope of what went wrong with Dixon Advisory - a scandal ...

Director pleads guilty to 'dishonestly' obtaining near $1m

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... purchases. The Roseville-based director was charged with eight counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception early last year, following an interim travel restraint order imposed by ASIC in the year prior. The matter has been listed ...

FSU steps up calls for reproductive leave policies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... adopt paid menopause leave policies as it finds more than one third of workers experiencing symptoms are likely to retire early as a result. In October 2023, the FSU launched its first ever survey on the impact of menstruation and menopause on financial ...

Growing super balances show more work to be done: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... dignified, comfortable retirement, and the future of retirement savings has never looked brighter," Delahunty added. The COVID-19 early release program is also a factor, with up to one million super accounts being left with less than $1000 in younger ...

HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... tap at last beginning to flow, it's also reassuring that the government plans a second round of allocations to take place early in the New Year. "CHIA strongly believes that the HAFF program must be viewed as part of the broader, coordinated and sustained ...