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FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms must be debated as legislation in Parliament, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair and former NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins. The government is currently ...

FoFA amendments could bring back commissions: FPA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
The government's proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms could lead to a return to commissions, Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall has warned. Speaking at the Financial Advice in Super Symposium ...

RFM tangled up on wine, chicken and almond saga

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... statement because we are advised it is wrong," RFM said. RFM also admitted that the statement that ProTen is funding the court case against it was false. The court case against RFM was started by Sunset Amber, a client company of Segue Financial Services ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... group Leighton Holdings lost 17 cents to $16.68 after work safety agency Comcar announced it would launch a Federal Court case against subsidiary John Holland over the death of a worker on Brisbane's Airport Link toll road.

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from WealthSure

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... document recently revealed that the Perth-based dealer group has terminated 90 authorised representatives following a court case against the group. Also, a former WealthSure adviser pleaded guilty to 22 criminal charges following an ASIC investigatio ...

WealthSure faces restructure after Court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Perth-based WealthSure has terminated 90 authorised representatives following a Federal Court case against the group and the appointment of a new chief executive. A Federal Court document revealed that WealthSure chief executive Darren Pawski has been ...

SMSFs lose majority of cases against ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees are unlikely to win court cases against the Australian Tax Office, according to David Hughes, a partner at law firm Small Myers Hughes. Speaking at the SPAA State Technical Conference in Sydney yesterday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... equities news, the Domaine Steel River v Ocean Street Holdings (Buildev Group) [Mirvac vs Tinkler] two-day Supreme Court case is expected to begin. Woolworths managing director Grant O'Brien is slated to address the Australian Institute of Company Directors ...

Banks take Bell Group case to High Court

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
The consortium of 20 banks involved in Australia's longest-running court case is seeking leave to appeal to the High Court. The banks, led by Westpac, lost an appeal in Western Australia's Supreme Court last month on a 2008 ruling that ordered them ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... interest rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday. In equities news, the first directions hearing is expected in the Federal Court case against Macquarie Equities for alleged market manipulation of shares in Bill Express. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...