ASIC has banned Melbourne-based financial adviser Wade Lance Spooner for eight years over inappropriate advice related to Shield Master Fund. Spooner, who had been authorised by MWL since May 2021, is ...
A fourth private credit fund has received interim stop orders from ASIC following the regulator’s surveillance. Two share classes for the TruePillars Investment Fund, a registered managed fund run by ...
Four years after the regulator sued the director of a life insurance distributor, the Federal Court has dismissed the case, despite the firm appearing as a case study for misconduct in the Hayne royal ...
The “experiment” away from vertical integration has been a mistake, according to Clime’s Michael Baragwanath, and Clime is positioning to benefit via acquisitions in the “climate of chaos”. Speaking ...
Advised investors switched out some of their blue-chip stocks for ETFs in September, according to the latest AUSIEX trading data. The monthly statistics showed that Betashares US Equities Strong Bear ...
Bravura Solutions has appointed a new chair and deputy chair to take over from departing Matthew Quinn, while Shezad Okhai picks up another responsibility. It was announced in August that Quinn would ...
As interest in managed accounts continues to grow, ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland reasserted the regulator’s intentions to conduct surveillance on advisers and licensees using managed accounts to ...
ASIC wants to expand proceedings against Equity Trustees to seek compensation for members following Macquarie’s agreement to pay $321 million over Shield failings. The corporate regulator wants to ...
Count has enacted its latest M&A deal of the financial year, acquiring the accounting and audit client base of a Sydney accounting firm. Subsidiary CountPlus One has entered into a binding agreement ...
ASIC has canceled the AFSL of Sydney-based asset consultant and research firm. CPG Research & Advisory, which operated in the Sydney CBD, saw its AFSL cancelled after ASIC became aware that CPG had ...
APRA has issued a letter to platform trustees, calling on them to urgently improve their onboarding practices and monitoring to safeguard investments held on platforms. This follows the information ...
Colonial First State (CFS) has appointed J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) to manage two global equity strategies run as multimanager single sector options. These multimanager funds are managed by ...