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Adviser stole $200k from SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) permanently banned a former financial adviser who stole more than $200,000 from client self-managed superannuation funds. Robert Michael of Bentleigh, Victoria has been permanently banned from ...

ASIC warns trustees on employer inducements

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... penalties can be imposed on trustees that don't comply with the law. If a court finds that a trustee or its associates breach the civil penalty provisions, they may be fined up to 2400 penalty units. The financial services Royal Commission found some ...

Sam Henderson cops ASIC ban

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... information about relationships or associations that could influence the financial advice provided. The regulator said this breach occurred in 2013 when Henderson was an investor in Managed Accounts Holdings (now Xplore Wealth), when a subsidiary of ...

ATO clarifies SMSF death benefit income streams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... paid, the trustees may have contravened the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994, the ATO warned. If a breach occurs, trustees must act swiftly to prevent other potential by ensuring death benefits can cashed as soon as practicable. ...

OnePath receives first Life Code sanction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... premium through the loan. OnePath did not offer a non-financed option in relation to some of its products, resulting in a breach of subsection 4.7(d)(i) and the sanction being issued.

AFCA delivers $83 million win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... external dispute membership with one of the previous schemes had failed to obtain AFCA membership and therefore may be in breach of their licence applications. Those previous schemes were the Financial Ombudsman Service, Credit and Investments Ombudsman ...

APRA sticks to rigid member outcomes deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... which seeks information from previous applicants, or applicants seeking authority to offer an existing product, on their breach history and/or the existence of any adverse findings against them. The MySuper authorisation update is part of the newly passed ...

Former financial adviser jailed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... in him." Gibbs was called "despicable" and "cruel" by the judge. ASIC became aware of the allegations as a result of a breach report made by Madison regarding Gibbs. A victim of Gibbs' crimes, Dallas Stevenson said: "When we realised that it really was ...

MLC faces class action over adviser fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... decision by NULIS to maintain payment of the conflicted charges from mid-2016 and the making of those payments constituted a breach of its duty to act in the best interests of the members of the MLC Super Fund. It is not proposed that any financial advisers ...

Sydney advice firm loses AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
A Sydney financial advice firm has had its AFSL cancelled by ASIC after an initial suspension period. ASIC earlier put Australasia Wealth Services and Management in suspension saying the firm had failed to obtain membership of the Australian Financial ...