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Former adviser receives jail sentence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... accounts he held and paying off personal debts. ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer said: "Wise repeatedly engaged in dishonest conduct, putting his own interests ahead of his clients. This type of conduct undermines trust and confidence in the financial advice ...

ASIC permanently bans dishonest adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... adviser from providing financial services. Ashley Howard was banned after an investigation found he had engaged in dishonest conduct, maintained that trading he was conduction was authorised, provided unlicensed and unauthorised financial advice and ...

Fraudulent adviser faces court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... investigation by the regulator, Gabriel Nakhl faced the Local Court of New South Wales yesterday, accused of engaging in dishonest conduct with investor funds. Nakhl was employed as an authorised representative of Australian Financial Services Limited ...

Ostrava wound up, directors banned

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... in his role as financial adviser to SMSF clients. The court found that Ostrava Equities and Grimm had engaged dishonest conduct by charging unauthorised fees to clients. It also found that the company and Grim contravened the Corporations Act by "making ...

ASIC permanently bans ex-HSBC, ANZ planners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... products (HSBC AP). ASIC found that between April 2013 and December 2013, Kwok engaged in misleading, deceptive and dishonest conduct in relation to client funds and investments. Specifically, Kwok misled and deceived four individual clients into investing ...

Adviser pleads guilty following ASIC sting

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
A former financial adviser has pleaded guilty in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court to dishonest conduct following an ASIC investigation. Darren Wise was a former representative for a practice known at the time as Financial Planning Services. From 2000 ...

ASIC bans SMSF adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... Pearson's authorised representative status in October 2013. Explaining the ban, ASIC said that Pearson engaged in dishonest conduct, including "creating documents to disguise the fact that client money was paid into Colisa's bank account" and "misled ...

ASIC financial services enforcements down 10%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... loss are remediated appropriately and as quickly as possible." Areas of enforcement include unlicensed conduct, dishonest conduct, theft, fraud and credit bans. Enforcement outcomes were criminal actions, civil and administrative remedies, negotiated ...

ASIC bans former Patersons adviser for life

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... commissioner John Price said. "ASIC will act to remove those financial advisers from the industry who engage in dishonest conduct." According to ASIC's statement, Fellowes has since returned the funds to his former clients.

Ex-ANZ adviser sent to jail over $6m fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... became an authorised representative of ANZ-owned Millenium3. In December 2013, Scott pleaded guilty to three dishonest conduct charges and four charges relating to the making and use of false documents involving $5.9 million of her clients' money. For ...