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UK influencers fined over promotion of unauthorised forex scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... supplement which allegedly included editing her waist in photographs. Together, the group of influencers has 4.5 million Instagram followers; Goodger alone has one million. According to reports by UK media, some of their followers invested in the CFD ...

Clime gains ground on culture, business model reset

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... to social media to reconnect with existing clients and their children. Clime's engagement on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are steadily growing. Its TikTok channel has clocked 394,000 views in FY25, generating interest on the topics of intergenerational ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... opportunity for super funds. Another means is social media. Many super funds have a presence on social media like YouTube and Instagram, yet it seems that only Rest has captured this short-attention-span audience on TikTok with more than 9200 followers. ...

Finfluencer failed to disclose paid promotions, says regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... separate product issuers via his social media content. Jayconomics has more than 50,000 YouTube subscribers and about 2000 Instagram followers. He also uses X and produces educational investing content on Patreon. The allegations first arose in early ...

Aussies prefer advisers, analyst notes over social media

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... respectively from 2024. Only a minority of investors tune into social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram for investment education. Conversely, a 2024 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) survey found that young ...

Super funds should focus on 'simple' advice: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... it, Jones said he fears Australians will increasingly turn to social media for financial advice. "They're going to Instagram, they're going to TikTok, they're going to 'finfluencers', unlicensed, unregulated - and that's at best. At worst ...

FAAA takes aim at finfluencers with new campaign

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... campaign aims to reach Australians across the same social media channels as finfluencers do, like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Youtube and LinkedIn. It will also feature in relevant podcasts and embedded on certain searches on Google. Milnes said the ...

Social media influencers charged for promoting shady investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... Scott Timlin, and The Only Way Is Essex stars Lauren Goodger and Yazmin Oukhellou were allegedly paid to promote an Instagram account, @holly_fxtrends, to their collective 4.5 million followers. This now-deleted account was doling out advice on trading ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... cold callers also bypass data brokers by posting click-bait advertisements on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Such ads promote superannuation comparison calculators, which give consumers the impression their existing superannuation ...

'ASX Wolf' Tyson Scholz bankrupt in ASIC crackdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... unlicensed financial services business from March 2020 to November 2021. Scholz shared posts on specific companies via Instagram, suggesting he owned shares or viewed them as good investments, likely swaying his audience to buy these stocks. Scholz also ...
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