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ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... Meanwhile, last week Australian Crime Commission executive director David Lacey warned that Australia's criminal intelligence agency was seeing an alarming increase in the number of offshore investment frauds seeking to target self managed super fund ...

Ex-drug dealers now hitting-up SMSFs: ACC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Australia's criminal intelligence agency, the ACC is witnessing an increasing number of the illegal operations, with many organised crime rings - formerly involved in drug trafficking - now targeting investors, as the profits were better and there was ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
National financial planning business AAA Financial Intelligence has had its license revoked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after it had 'comprehensively and repeatedly' failed to comply with the Corporations Act 2001 ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... November. Worse, it has the widest deficit - budget and current account - among its peers. Based on the "Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU)" forecast, India will end the year 2012 with a budget deficit equivalent to 6.1% of GDP and a current account ...

Ex-Kangaroo and Storm adviser banned for non-compliance

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... Storm Financial Ltd between May 2006 and June 2009 and is currently an authorised representative with AAA Financial Intelligence Ltd. An ASIC investigation found that between 20 November 2007 and 10 December 2010, Mr Fullerton-Smith: Failed to comply ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... Why not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than 10 times that of Uncle Sam's minus 7.6% ...

WA closures signal mining boom end: Veda

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... regained economic momentum via new business openings during the past 12 months, according to new insights by data intelligence company, Veda. Veda's latest data intelligence comparing state business openings and closure performance shows that WA small ...

HNW clients give brokers the 'thumbs down'

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... HNW individuals, brokers failed to alter their operating models to reflect this reality, CoreData's Private Bank Intelligence Unit found. In a focus group of HNWIs with $2 million plus in investable assets, and an online satisfaction survey, brokers ...

Regulators on post-Trio watch

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... said that changes had been made. "What we do realise is that we need to be more effective in picking up industry intelligence, and that's part of internal structural changes we have made in the organisation," he said, speaking on a panel comprised of ...

Former investment company director pleads guilty

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... of Queensland to wind up Tanoak Pty Ltd and another company of which Ms Oakley was sole director, Fintel Financial Intelligence Pty Ltd. John Cunningham of Worrell's was appointed official liquidator of the companies. The matter was heard in Noosa Magistrates ...