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Securities dealer scales back after ASIC review

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Securities dealer Clearing & Settlement Services (CSS) has downsized its operations after the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) found it had failed to comply with conditions of its Australian Financial Services licence (AFSL). ...

Admin costs rise four-fold off-platform: research

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Advisers who choose to go off-platform when handling client investments could be hit with higher admin costs, in one case four times more compared with staying on-platform, research found. The report undertaken by Praxis Partners and commissioned by ...

ASIC bans another insurance broker

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Financial planners and industry professionals were sent another clear message today that unscrupulous practitioners will face the full force of the regulator with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) permanently banning a Sydney ...

ClearView appoints heads of direct and advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
ClearView Wealth Limited announced yesterday two senior management appointments in its direct and advice businesses. ClearView has appointed Elliot Singfield as head of direct. Since February, Singfield has been leading the Direct business which includes ...

Three new GMs at ipac

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Three new general managers are set to join ipac's state based advice businesses, it was announced today. Eric Gibson, Nick Brinkworth and Craig Weber have been appointed as general managers of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria respectively following ...

ASIC court order against Sydney adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained interim court orders against Sydney financial adviser Gabriel Nakhl. The orders restrain Nakhl from disposing of, dealing with or diminishing certain assets, except in limited circumstances ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
A joint parliamentary committee yesterday urged enforcement agencies to keep chasing the perpetrator of the Trio Capital Fraud. Some $176 million was lost or went missing following the collapse of Trio in late 2009 - the largest superannuation fraud ...

TAL's Affinia hires for growth plans

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
Life insurance group TAL's new risk business Affinia has hired three regional managers to spearhead growth plans, it said yesterday. Affinia said that Jonathon Nguyen, Peter Nielsen and Paul Gaffney would become regional managers, and that each had ...

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
A community group has said it will back a candidate for the New South Wales federal seat of Throsby as a result of its claims that the Gillard Government ignored victims of financial fraud. Victims of Financial Fraud (VOFF) convenor Paul Matters told ...

New Westpac director to start in Feb

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
Former chairman of Allens law firm, Ewen Crouch will start as an independent non-executive director on Westpac Banking Corporation's board from February this year. Crouch has headed Allens' board since 2009, and is recognised as one of Australia's best ...