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September 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans former financial adviser for forgery

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) announced that has permanently banned financial adviser Koresh Daniel Houghton from providing financial services because he had engaged in misleading, deceptive and dishonest conduct and failed to act in his clients' best interests when providing advice. ASIC's surveillance of Mr Houghton found that he: had created false documents…

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August 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC permanently bans jailed company director from credit and financial services industries

Mr Gavin Keith Hyland has been permanently banned from engaging in credit activities or providing financial services, ASIC announced earlier today. Mr Hyland was banned following his recent conviction in the Brisbane District Court on two counts of dishonestly using his position to misappropriate $104,110 of investor funds. Mr Hyland is currently serving a two…

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August 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC permanently bans former Tasmanian financial adviser

ASIC has permanently banned Daniel Joseph Noonan, a former financial adviser based in Hobart, from the credit and financial services industries. Mr Noonan was banned after pleading guilty and being convicted of 97 counts of fraud and 10 counts of stealing in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on 23 June 2017, following an investigation by…

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August 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans Queensland financial adviser

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned financial adviser Travis Byron McLean from providing financial services for a period of five years. ASIC found that Mr McLean failed to act in his clients' best interests when providing advice and that he failed to comply with several financial services laws. ASIC Deputy Chairman Peter…

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July 24, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC permanently bans former finance analyst

ASIC announced that has permanently banned Ms Thuy Thi VU, a former finance analyst in Darwin, NT from the credit and financial services industries. Ms Vu, a former finance analyst in the Darwin branch of Alldrive Holdings Pty Ltd, trading as United Financial Services (WA), was convicted on nine charges of submitting false or misleading…

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July 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans former Magnitude Group adviser

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned Perth financial adviser Jason Sean Atkins from providing financial services for a period of three years. ASIC found that Mr Atkins provided advice to clients to establish a self–managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and use limited recourse borrowing arrangements to fund the purchase of real property that…

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July 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AAT affirms ASIC ban of former AMP financial planner

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) announced that has affirmed ASIC’s decision to permanently ban Mr Rommel Panganiban from providing financial services. ASIC banned Mr Rommel Panganiban, of Bella Vista, New South Wales, from providing financial services after an ASIC surveillance found that he failed to act in his clients' best interests or have a reasonable…

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June 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former financial adviser banned by ASIC for seven years

ASIC announced that has banned former financial adviser, Mr Robert Gunner, of Brisbane, Queensland from providing financial services for seven years. Mr Gunner was employed as a representative of GuardianFP from 15 February 2013 until 4 May 2016. ASIC found that between January 2014 and February 2016, Mr Gunner failed to comply with financial services…

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