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ASIC takes action against former AMP adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
ASIC commenced civil proceedings against a former authorised representative of AMP accused of operating an unregistered managed investment scheme and using investor funds for themselves. The corporate regulator has taken action against former financial ...

Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... Rabia Siddique, a human rights lawyer and author who in 2007 sued the UK Ministry of Defence for sex discrimination and failing to acknowledge her role in a hostage rescue operation in Iraq. She won the landmark case and the high-profile news story helped ...

Former NAB, Infocus advisers banned

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... Securities Australia. Williams had been charged with fraud and stealing under the Queensland Criminal Code. ASIC said that by "failing to disclose this information to Infocus and the professional indemnity insurer, Ms Williams prevented her licensee ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
CommInsure has been fined $700,000 after pleading guilty to hawking offences. The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society - a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary trading as CommInsure - has been convicted of 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products ...

Westpac halts short-term bonuses, culls Litepay

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
The under-fire big bank will halt short term incentives for its executive team as it deals with the fallout from its alleged breaches of anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws. Announcing the bank's three-point response plan ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... international funds transfers from November 2013 to September 2018 and amounts to over $11 billion. The bank is also accused of failing to pass on information about the source of funds to other banks in the transfer chain, keep records relating to the ...

ASFA strikes back at super detractors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... ideological plot to undermine western liberal democracy," Fahy said. "This combative narrative labels our system, unaffordable, failing lower income earners, inefficient, lacking transparency, and that it eats wage growth. "At the most ludicrous level ...

Former Apogee, GPS Wealth advisers banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
A former Apogee Financial Planning adviser has been handed a four-year ban for failing to provide appropriate advice. Meanwhile, a former GPS Wealth representative has been banned for three years for similar misconduct involving insurance products. ...

ASIC zeroes in on SMSF auditors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... responsibilities, including meeting independence and auditing standards. Alan Bentwitch of New South Wales was disqualified for failing to have peer reviews of three of his audits, a condition imposed on his registration following a referral from the ...