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ATO eyes SMSF illegal early access

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... restrict your SMSF's ability to receive rollovers and employer contributions." The ATO is also keeping on top of SMSFs failing to respond to ATO commissioner's commutation authorities within 60 days using the correct reporting event and by lodging ...

Binance under microscope over loose controls

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... regulatory requirements, but if they don't understand local money laundering and terrorism financing risks, they are failing to meet their AML/CTF obligations in Australia. "Understanding specific risks of criminality in the Australian context is ...

Adviser banned for UGC, Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Gold Coast-based financial adviser Andrew Rankin has been banned for four years for failing to act in clients' best interests by pushing them to invest in the Global Capital Property Fund (GCPF) and Pivotal Diversified Fund. The banning took effect ...

NAB fined over $15m for delaying hardship applications

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... ordered National Australia Bank (NAB) and its subsidiary ASFH Nominees to pay a pecuniary penalty of $15.5 million for failing to respond to customers facing hardship. The court found that between 2018 and 2023, NAB and ASFH failed to respond to 345 ...

ASIC sues Fortnum Private Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
ASIC is suing Fortnum Private Wealth for allegedly failing to manage and comply with its cybersecurity obligations that exposed the information of its financial advisers and clients. In the NSW Supreme Court, ASIC alleges Fortnum exposed its authorised ...

James Mawhinney contravened law: Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... Mayfair 101 Group companies engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct from 11 March 2020 and prior to 2 April 2020 by failing to disclose in marketing material that investor redemptions had been suspended. Furthermore, Judge Button found that another ...

Licensee compliance head banned over fees for no service

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
... misconduct. Former Crown Wealth Group director and head of compliance Andrew Moore has been banned for three years for failing to recognise the seriousness of fees for no service conduct, committed by one of its representatives at Lighthouse Partners. ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... the standard required." This is in light of ASIC handing down a scathing review on the state of superannuation trustees failing to monitor or report on their death benefit claims handling processes from start to finish. All the while, many super funds ...

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... funds "don't do very well." Devitt noted that ASIC's crackdown on larger funds like Cbus, which was sued for allegedly failing to act honestly and fairly in handling death benefit and total and permanent disability insurance claims, and AustralianSuper ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... in the Shield Master Fund and the First Guardian Master Fund. ASIC said it cancelled FSGA's licence on June 7 for failing to take reasonable steps to ensure that two of its representatives provided financial product advice that was appropriate to ...