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Analyst guilty of insider trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... information to an associate," ASIC said. "The inside information was communicated to Ho during a series of meetings and telephone conversations between Ho and Big Un's chief executive Richard Evertz throughout 2016 and 2017." Ho resigned from Maple Brown ...

Partnership sees improved advice services

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... capabilities via a partnership with Link Advice. LGIAsuper partnered with Link Advice in October 2019 and has now expanded its telephone service for providing advice to members. LGIAsuper chief executive Kate Farrar said Link Advice was qualified to ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... CommInsure - has been convicted of 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products in the course of unlawful, unsolicited telephone calls. Otherwise known as hawking, the conduct contravenes section 992A(3) of the Corporations Act. The firm made an ...

CommInsure enters guilty plea

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... has entered a guilty plea for 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products in the course of unlawful, unsolicited telephone calls. CommInsure is, and was at the relevant time, a wholly owned subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank. "Between October and December ...

Trustee firm, super fund in hot water

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... the fund and roll their other super balances into Mobi-promoted products. Further, ASIC alleges that during marketing telephone calls to consumers Mobi customer service officers made misleading claims about fee savings and equivalent insurance cover ...

Link Advice partners with $12bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
Link Advice signed a deal to support the in-house telephone financial advice services of a $12 billion superannuation fund. Link Advice has partnered with LGIAsuper as the fund aims to meet increased demand for financial planning services. According ...

ASIC wins appeal against Westpac companies

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... Court this morning delivered the corporate regulator a win in its appeal against a previous ruling on Westpac's telephone campaigns. The full court this morning said ASIC's appeal will be allowed with costs, while Westpac-related companies' ...

CommInsure charged over hawking

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
CommInsure has been charged with 87 counts of making unsolicited telephone calls to sell life insurance, and faces up to $1.8 million in penalties. ASIC is alleging the Commonwealth Bank subsidiary unlawfully sold life insurance policies over the phone ...

Major super funds caught in fraud scandal

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... ASIC believes the 21-year-old used stolen information purchased from dark net marketplaces, together with single use telephone SIM cards and fake email accounts, to undertake an "identity takeover". Once the false identities and accounts were established ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... will happen in October. Bloomberg reports: "Chinese Vice Premier Liu He agreed to a visit in "early October" during a telephone call on Thursday morning Beijing time with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer ...