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Morrison Securities stake to net Sequoia $40m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
... paid a deposit of $1.5 million, with a further $9 million due on March 20. Further payments are due at the end of May and August. Sequoia said $500,000 of the proceeds will be set aside to establish a trust for employees of Morrison Securities, holding ...

ASIC charges former investment company executives

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2023
... manager for Benjamin Hornigold. ASIC also alleges that McAuliffe caused misleading information to be provided to the ASX in August 2018 about the payments to John Bridgeman. According to ASIC, the conduct was in violation of s 1309 of the Corporations ...

Advice group convicted of hawking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... Court convicted the firm after it pleaded guilty to one count of breaching anti-hawking laws. It was alleged that between August 2019 and June 2020 the company made unsolicited calls to consumers to encourage them to move their super into a different ...

Financial Circle director convicted, fined

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023
... Court. The charge arose from an ASIC investigation that found Fuoco was involved in the running of Financial Circle from August 2017 to September 2018 despite having been disqualified from managing corporations by the watchdog for two and a half years ...

Former Big Un chief charged with insider trading

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... arrangement with First Class Capital was released. It was placed in voluntary administration and delisted from the exchange in August 2018 and is now in liquidation. The matter has been listed for mention at the Downing Centre Local Court on 11 April ...

Super, advice class actions dampen CBA results

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... commissions to financial advisers. CBA will face mediation around the second quarter of 2023 and a trial is set to commence on 7 August 2023. In January 2020, the latest class action brought against the superannuation business, alleges that CFSIL did ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... plan, "due to concerns with their public statements and record of prioritising ESG initiatives over shareholder return." In August 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the trustees of the US$253.1 billion State Board of Administration (SBA) have banned ...

Assets under custody stagnant: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
... trillion. The update revealed assets are up 0.6% for the same six months, however there's been no major movement since last August. Assets held on behalf of Australian investors fell by 0.5%, while offshore assets held increased by 3.0%. Meanwhile, assets ...

More DASS complainants flock to AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
... number of complainants has grown by about 100 to 1700 as of 1 February 2023, according to AFCA's latest figures. Last August, corporate watchdog ASIC urged former DASS clients who potentially suffered bad advice to lodge a formal complaint with AFCA ...

APRA slaps conditions on Diversa

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... greenwashing. The allegations related to statements made by Cruelty Free Super which overstated the use of investment screens. In August 2022, mobiSuper and its licensee ZIB Financial paid $250,000 for breaching superannuation advice laws. Meanwhile ...