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Don't deal with Aussie Rob, ASIC warns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned Aussie Rob Financial Services and Lifestyle Trader director Robert Lloyd Wilson from providing financial services, and warned the public "not to deal with the failed businessman". ...

Market Vectors lists first Aussie banking ETF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
Market Vectors ETFs has listed four new Australian exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), including the first Australian banking and small cap resources ETFs. The listing brings the total number of exchange traded ...

ASIC has risk advice in its sights

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) deputy chairman Peter Kell has the retail insurance sectors in his sights, announcing that the regulator will conduct major surveillance of the sector. Kell said ASIC is in the process of gathering ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch, in Sydney. In equities news, the OzForex Group lists on Australian Securities Exchange. In Australia, the market on Thursday fell with commodity price driving local stocks lower despite the release of ...

Centrepoint optimistic after completing AAP acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... performance, which reported a net loss after tax of $4.2 million in financial year 2013. At the same time, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) expressed concerns over PIS' compliance and audit functions and asked for the dealer ...

Chambers enters into administration, loses AFSL

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... into voluntary administration and had its Australian financial services licence (AFSL) cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC also cancelled the Australian credit licence of Chambers after it ceased to engage in ...

ASIC rescues lower risk products from 'hedge fund' label

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has tweaked its definition of a hedge fund, to reduce the number of products that fall within stricter disclosure requirements. Product providers had expressed concern that some low-risk retail ...

ATO unsure if dividend washing illegal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... said they are concerned that some entities are trading listed shares on a Special Market operated by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with the sole purpose of obtaining additional franking credits. To clarify the status of dividend washing the ...

Industry funds ask for specialised SMSF adviser training

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and the Industry Super Association (ISA) have lodged a joint submission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Consultation Paper 212 on adviser training. "AIST and ISN believe that the knowledge ...

Sonray director to face 10 years imprisonment over unfunded deposits

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... false accounting, theft and deception. Johnson pleaded guilty to the seven criminal charges brought by the Australian Securities Investment Council (ASIC) in the Supreme Court of Victoria. He faces a maximum of ten years' imprisonment for each of the ...