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ASIC bans former Macquarie advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
ASIC has banned two former Macquarie advisers from providing financial services. Anthony Jason Sourris and Sarah Kate Gardner have been banned for two and a half years and one year respectively after ASIC found they were both involved in, and lied to ...

ASIC bans ex-Macquarie Equities trader

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
ASIC has banned a former representative of Macquarie Equities for five years. Nicholas Kerr worked for Macquarie Equities from 2008 to 2013; during that time, ASIC alleged he engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on five client accounts, as ...

ASIC bans jailed former advice director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
ASIC has permanently banned the former director of an insurance broking company after being found guilty of seven counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage from the Commonwealth by deception. In April Timothy Charles Pratten was sentenced ...

ASIC bans ex-NAB planner from the industry

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a former NAB adviser. Hardik Bhimani was a senior financial planning manager, then a senior financial planner, with NAB Financial Planning from April 2011 to November 2014. It was during this period that ASIC has now accused ...

ASIC bans former Guardian Advice planner

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a former Guardian Advice representative. Andrew Moroney worked under the Guardian Advice licence from 2006 to 2014, during which time ASIC alleged he engaged in deliberate "policy churn" - annually recommending clients replace ...

ASIC bans ex-NAB adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
ASIC has banned a former NAB adviser for seven years. ASIC has alleged that then NAB representative Shane Thompson, engaged in misconduct between December 2012 and February 2013. Specifically, Thompson forged "change of adviser" forms and submitted ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie planner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
ASIC has given a former Macquarie Equities employee a three-year ban. Ben Rickman was found by the regulator "not to be adequately trained or competent to provide financial services," having done so as a Macquarie Equities representative from 2012 to ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities accredited derivatives adviser for market manipulation. Working with a former Credit Suisse employee, Tony Davidof manipulated the price of MINI derivatives via sequential buy and sell trades after both pre-arranging ...

ASIC bans NAB-aligned adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
A financial adviser linked with National Australia Bank (NAB) owned Meritum Financial Group has been banned for six years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). NAB has welcomed ASIC's action against Mark Tidbury after the bank ...

ASIC bans another SMSF auditor

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
ASIC has permanently banned an auditor from providing services to self-managed superannuation funds. Based in Sydney, Abe Samuel was found to have breached independence requirements by the regulator, specifically by auditing a fund of which he was a ...