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ME Bank fined $820k for misleading borrowers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ME Bank has been fined by the Federal Court after it was found to have provided inaccurate information about its home loans to customers. The matter, prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, followed an investigation and referral ...

Court fines Linchpin, Endeavour directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
... Endeavour Securities, both of which are now in liquidation, were slapped with a combined $390,000 penalty by the Federal Court for breaching their duties. Last April, the court found that Ian Williams, Paul Raftery, Paul Nielsen, and Peter Daly breached ...

Investors livid over fresh portfolio valuation: Mayfair 101

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
... uplift in Mayfair's portfolio confirms ASIC grossly mischaracterised Mayfair's business and its investments to the Federal Court of Australia, and that Mayfair's investments were solid. ASIC had no right to take that away from nearly six hundred people ...

Zurich cleared by Federal Court in life insurance dispute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
Zurich Australia has been cleared of breaching its duty of utmost good faith by the Federal Court, in a case connected to OnePath Life's avoidance of an income protection policy. The case marks ASIC's first attempt to impose a civil penalty under s13 ...

Federal Court appoints receivers to investigate Brite Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
The Federal Court has appointed Linda Smith and Robert Kirman of McGrathNicol as corporate receivers to probe Brite Advisors, following serious concerns about the management of client pension funds. Smith and Kirman will investigate Brite Advisors and ...

ASIC takes action on EverBlu, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... as a director of ASX-listed Creso Pharma (now Melodiol Global Health). The proceeding, due to take place in the Federal Court, seeks orders to disqualify Blumenthal from managing corporations for five years and impose a pecuniary penalty. ASIC alleged ...

What you read in 2023

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... forward," AMP chief executive Alexis George said at the time. 10) AMP loses BOLR changes class action (July 5) The Federal Court ruled in favour of the AMP Financial Planning advisers who saw the buy-back value of their businesses slashed by controversial ...

Federal Court approves BT Super $30m settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023
The Federal Court approved the $29.95 million class action settlement against Westpac after subsidiaries BT Funds Management (BTFM) and Westpac Life Insurance Services (WLIS) allegedly failed to manage conflicts of interest when investing BT Super member ...

ANZ fined $900k over shares disclosure failure

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
The Federal Court has slapped ANZ with a $900,000 fine for breaching its continuous disclosure laws about eight years ago. In October, the court found the banking giant had contravened continuous disclosure laws by failing to tell the market its underwriters ...

Adviser with Investport links sees ban affirmed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
... unregistered managed investment scheme run by Linchpin Capital. Endeavour Securities was the responsible entity. The Federal Court later found the directors of the scheme had used money sought from investors for their personal use, including signing ...