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Super funds defend $5bn infrastructure investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... ultimately cost consumers in those states and impact the wider economy in the long term," he said. The ACCC is seeking declarations that the compensation provisions in the 2013 Port Commitment Deeds contravene the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA) ...

FPA appoints new chair, director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... and 'financial adviser' in law, and the recognition of financial planners as signatories for Commonwealth statutory declarations, alongside lawyers, medical practitioners and justices of the peace, the association said. "I'm delighted to be handing over ...

Advisers granted stat dec authorisation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
Financial advisers now have the status to sign statutory declarations under Commonwealth law. Advisers are now recognised as an additional category of people who are authorised to witness a Commonwealth statutory declaration, as outlined in the new ...

ASIC takes Dover, McMaster to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... Federal Court, ASIC has also alleged that McMaster was knowingly concerned in the misconduct and is therefore seeking declarations that both Dover and McMaster broke financial services law, as well as financial penalties against both.

MLC, NULIS in court over $100m in illegitimate fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... current and former super trustee of NAB - misled members of MLC MasterKey Super products, with the regulator seeking declarations of contravention and a civil penalty. ASIC also claims NULIS and MLC Nominees charged 220,000 members of MLC MasterKey Business ...

Former adviser faces fraud charges

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... contravened the Corporations Act by issuing units in the Australian Diversified Sector Income Fund, with ASIC also seeking declarations Growth Plus was the fund's trustee, which it found to be true in November 2016, with the proceedings currently adjourned. ...

Uncertainty abounds future of advice regulation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... be identified. Currently, the primary way in which the FPA is alerted to adviser conduct issues is by way of self-declarations in applications for membership and at membership renewal time. It does not receive notifications from ASIC. For those members ...

ASIC successfully files injunction against Melbourne advice provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... including breaches of the best interests duty and unlicensed conduct. As such, ASIC sought injunctive relief as well as declarations of contraventions and financial penalties. According to ASIC, Financial Circle Pty Ltd holds an AFSL authorising it to ...

Melbourne advice firm cops historic $1 million fine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... as "very serious ones." ASIC commenced proceedings against NSG in June 2016, with NSG consenting to the making of declarations against it in March of this year. After a hearing on 30 March 2017, the Court was satisfied that declarations ought to be made. ...

ASIC wins first court action for FoFA breaches

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... with the guidance from the regulator." ASIC has sought orders that NSG pay pecuniary penalties in relation to the declarations made. In addition to the Federal Court decision, ASIC has banned previous representatives of the firm, Adrian Chenh and Bill ...