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CSLR estimates $241m to fund backlog of complaints

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
... eligible complaints - some 1556 - will result in a payment. The next largest provision is for other complaints related to personal financial advice, with the estimated number of successful complaints sitting at 284 and amounting to a claim cost of $27 ...

ASIC permanently bans adviser who stole client funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
... Management accounts and guarantee them annual returns of 8%. He then was found to have used those clients' funds for personal expenses without permission, and failed to return the funds to clients even when redemption requests were made. Pagliacco was ...

Former director sentenced to over four years imprisonment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2023
... Investments, extracting more than $550,000 from the company's accounts to purchase shares in a security company for his personal benefit. ASIC froze the assets of Naseeruddin's companies in 2019, and successfully obtained orders in 2020 to wind ...

Treasury to refresh financial adviser exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... standards for professional advisers. A person is still required to meet the qualifications standard in order to provide personal financial advice to retail clients. Licensees are still required to meet their existing obligation to ensure their advisers ...

Former adviser misled ASIC during investigation: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... his clients at significantly different prices. He then used the price margin for his own purposes, including paying off personal debts. Ridgway was permanently banned from working in financial services earlier this year after ASIC found that he "is not ...

ASIC takes action on EverBlu, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... he facilitated loans from his private company Anglo Menda to lend funds to EverBlu clients, in breach of EverBlu's personal dealing policy, to trade in Creso shares. This included lending Tyson Scholz or the ASX Wolf, a former finfluencer and EverBlu ...

Fee consent forms, FDS overhaul concerns FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... Instead, the legislation should allow product providers to accept the standardised consent form for the deduction of personal advice fees whether it is one-off, fixed term or under an ongoing fee arrangement. In proposing to end FDSs, the FAAA pointed ...

AustralianSuper in talks to extend administration services mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
AustralianSuper has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Link Group to negotiate an extension to their core administration services partnership. Link Group's Retirement and Superannuation Solutions (RSS) business and AustralianSuper will ...

Hostplus ups fees on socially responsible option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... Disclosure Statement (PDS) to reflect the fees and costs incurred last financial year for members in Hostplus Super, Personal Super, and the Executive Plan, saying the current PDS "reflects a material increase in fees and costs for the option." According ...

FSCP issues another registration prohibition order

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... been prohibited from registering as an adviser with ASIC until after 6 December 2025. He is also prohibited from giving personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial products during the prohibition period. The FSCP found that Rogers provided ...