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Former van Eyk chief cops permanent ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2023
... currently serving a 15-month sentence and must complete 250 hours of community service. ASIC said Thomas is permanently banned from performing any function involved within a financial services business or credit provider, or control, whether alone or ...

Madison acquisitions strengthen top line

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023
... Importantly, we are now seeing positive momentum and expect synergies to flow consistently over FY24 and beyond". In June, ASIC banned former Madison adviser Stephen Vick for recommending that clients roll over their existing superannuation to a newly ...

Veteran adviser cops permanent ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
ASIC permanently banned a financial adviser who has been advising for 34 years after an investigation found, among other violations, that he misappropriated funds and dealt in derivatives without the proper authorisations. Donald James Cuthbertson ...

ASIC acts against illegal investment scheme operator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
... Group wound up, alongside five of the investment schemes and all associated companies and trusts. It also wants Hopkins banned from managing corporations. The regulator already had Hopkins' assets frozen in June 2022, as well as those of The A Team ...

ASIC continues to reprimand SMSF auditors

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
... Leggett, and Malcolm Orman were disqualified from being SMSF auditors and their names have been added to ASIC's public banned register. They are ineligible to reapply for registration, although Funder has already requested a review of the decision by ...

CFS settles super fees class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... fees under the commission arrangements. This is despite the charging of commissions on new superannuation accounts being banned in 2013 under the Future of Financial Advice reforms. The action, which has been ongoing since October 2019, said CFS had ...

Openmarkets hit with largest ever MDP penalty

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
... systems. The broker also commissioned an independent review of the design of its trade systems back in 2021. Meanwhile, ASIC banned Openmarkets former acting head of trading Virginia Owczarek from providing any financial service for three years. The ...

Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... the company the Hayne Royal Commission exposed for hawking life and funeral insurance to vulnerable customers, has been banned from managing a company for five years, while his companies were fined $13.5 million. The Federal Court found Russell Howden ...

ASIC permanently bans David Sutton

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
ASIC has permanently banned David Sutton from providing any financial services and disqualified him from managing corporations for five years. The regulator also cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of McFaddens Securities, now ...

Anti-hawking laws could dampen super fund advice: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... parties to solicit business through cold calling. Unsolicited calls to consumers about superannuation advice should be banned, the industry body said in its May pre-budget submission, adding that it is aware of several financial advice businesses employing ...