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ASIC cancels slew of AFSLs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... conditions. The company failed to lodge annual financial reports and auditor reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Finally, a Queensland financial planning and stockbroking firm FS Securities had its licence cancelled on March 5 after it failed to meet the ...

New firm joins Count Financial network

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
Count Financial has become the licensee of an accounting-led financial advice firm in Queensland. Affinitas Financial Planning has joined Count Financial as its newest corporate authorised representative. Affinitas Financial Planning managing director ...

Court confirms Storm Financial founders breached duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... deemed by ASIC to be an unlawful managed investment scheme with which Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank and Bank of Queensland were involved. At the time of collapse, about 3000 of its 14,000 clients had been "Stormified". The majority of investors were ...

Why banks are lifting TD rates

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... announcement, 25 other banks have followed suit, including Westpac, NAB, St George, Suncorp, Bank of Melbourne, Bank of Queensland, HSBC and Macquarie Bank. Westpac acting chief executive Peter King said the bank was determined to assist customers during ...

Super funds raise scam concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... emerge," Intrust Super said. "Fraudsters are contacting people to "assist" in accessing money from super accounts." The Queensland-based super fund said it would never contact members and ask for the password to their super accounts, and asked members ...

AFSL suspended by ASIC

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
A Queensland-based financial services provider has had its AFS licence suspended, impacting close to 20 financial advisers. ASIC has suspended the AFS licence of Longhou Capital Markets for three months, expiring June 12 this year. It follows the appointment ...

Centuria opens new office, appoints GM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... new Brisbane office. Centuria Capital has appointed former CBRE head of asset management David McGuigan as its new Queensland general manager, as the investment manager looks to grow into Queensland. McGuigan will work from the firm's new Brisbane ...

Sunsuper Labor donations rile Bragg

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg over the prudential regulator's lack of opinion on the $11,000 donation made by the large Queensland super fund to the ALP. Towards the end of APRA's time before the committee, Senator Bragg asked Rowell whether the regulator ...

BNP Paribas hires from Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... manager on BNP Paribas Asset Management's institutional team, he will be responsible for sales in New South Wales and Queensland, as first reported by Financial Standard's sister publication Industry Moves. Elhage reports to John Jardim, who heads BNP's ...

Boutique dealer groups merge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... from Aura will step in. The merged groups will have a larger geographic reach, with Aura based in New South Wales and Queensland and Spark focussed on the southern states.