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Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
A financial adviser who allegedly used a scanned copy of his 72-year-old client's signature to misappropriate $1.5 million in shares is facing a life ban from ASIC and court action. Todd Michael King, of Perth, WA, allegedly used a scanned signature ...

Fraud adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial adviser Robert Owen Bean has been banned for life for stealing more than $3 million from his clients over seven years, some of which he used for his own personal benefit, ASIC said today. Bean had been a securities representative and authorised ...

Planners risk trouble opposing FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... executive David Whiteley said the financial advisory industry may face structural separation, where product providers are banned from employing financial planners, if the reforms fail to pass. Shadow Minister for Financial Services Senator Mathias Cormann ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... for Bridges Financial Services in 2007. The firm soon became suspicious and reported him to the corporate watchdog. ASIC banned Brown from providing financial services for life in December 2009 after investigating. Brown appeared on Tuesday in the Downing ...

Director to challenge ASIC ban

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Financial services regulator ASIC today said it banned a director for three years from providing financial services - but the director is appealing against the decision which she called "disgraceful". Tracey Burnell, of Doncaster East, Victoria, was ...

ASIC bans "deceptive" planner for five years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Corporate watchdog ASIC has banned a financial planner for five years after he tricked his clients with shonky advice which included arranging margin loans for them, it said today. ASIC said Ian John Weaver of Clear Island Waters, Queensland, broke ...

New super products and mergers may result - insurers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... alike have responded with mixed reactions to today's announcement regarding the Future of Financial Advice reforms which banned all commissions on risk insurance for both individual and group risk inside superannuation and placed a broad ban on volume-based ...

Adviser banned for life by ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
Former WealthSure financial adviser, Brian William Veitch, has been banned for life from providing financial advice following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC alleges Veitch failed to comply with ...

Rogue trader banned for four years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
A rogue forex trader has been banned for four years by Australia's corporate watchdog after fleecing the savings of six Gold Coast residents through a pooled fund. Andrew Mark Perkin must not provide any financial products or services under the enforceable ...

ASIC clampdown on poor business models in advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... the complaint and pay compensation," said ASIC. Advisers who are found to have provided inappropriate advice may also be banned. Greg Miller, general manager of advice solutions, MLC said that MLC systems already review its own licensee board, approved ...