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National Seniors asks Inquiry to deliver "top quality" advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... protections introduced by the former Labor government in response to recent corporate failures such as Storm Financial (2009), Trio (2009) and Banksia (2012)." "The system needs to acknowledge and reflect the shift to individual risk," National Seniors ...

Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen that proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation may make Storm or Trio Capital cases "more likely" as "complete rubbish." "The ALP has made it very clear and Chris Bowen said it yesterday that ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... years in the making," he said. "These weren't overnight reforms. Scandals including Westpoint, Great Southern, Storm and Trio culminated in a parliamentary inquiry which found that, among other reforms required, a best interest duty was necessary to ...

Tarrant appeals AAT banning order

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... to ban him from providing financial services for seven years. Tarrant was sued by about 100 investors in the case of the Trio Capital fraud for ushering clients into the scheme. On January 8th, the AAT affirmed the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Trio victims condemn Astarra director jail release

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... former director Shawn Richard after two years and six months in prison. The organisation that represents the victims of the Trio Capital fraud have described the sentence as "light" and "pathetic." "A dole cheat in this country gets a heavier sentence ...

Court dismisses case against Trio director after APRA EU

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
The Federal Court has ordered legal proceedings against former trio director David Millhouse to be dismissed after the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) accepted a voluntary enforceable undertaking from him. The regulator has banned ...

ASIC concedes Trio ringleader investigation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been forced to concede defeat in its pursuit of the alleged ringleader of the Trio/Asterra collapse. ASIC had previously acknowledged that bringing a strong enough case against Jack Flader to prove guilt ...

Former Trio director provides enforceable undertaking

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
A former director of Trio Capital, Kurt Groeneveld has provided the prudential regulator with an enforceable undertaking excluding him from acting as a superannuation trustee for three and a half years. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... investigate and enforce company officers breaches of the Corporations Act." ASIC cited the actions taken after the collapse of Trio Capital and the reaction to "widespread problems" at Commonwealth Bank financial planning unit. However, the Senate inquiry ...

Trio director strikes back and takes APRA to court

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
Former Trio Capital director David Millhouse is to counterattack the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) decision to start proceedings in the Federal Court to disqualify him from financial services. Millhouse has decided to launch legal ...