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Equity Trustees sues investment firm over currency hedge trades
Financial Services 2022-10-17 11:30 pm By Sam Matthews

Equity Trustees has sued asset manager Tactical Global Management seeking millions in compensation for losses allegedly stemming from over-hedging trades.

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ASIC issues stop orders on Holon crypto funds pitched to retail investors
Cryptocurrency 2022-10-17 3:02 pm By Sam Matthews

The corporate regulator has placed interim stop orders on three crypto funds distributed by Holon Investments Australia Limited, citing the need to protect investors from sinking money into funds that may be too risky and speculative.

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NAB defeats unconscionable conduct case by vehicle finance brokerage
Financial Services 2022-10-14 9:40 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has tossed a broker’s lawsuit against NAB and its former subsidiary FAST, finding the bank was entitled to terminate its accreditation over the use of a banned broker’s trail book.

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ANZ close to settling class action over ‘junk’ add-on insurance
Class Actions 2022-10-14 4:06 pm By Sam Matthews

Insurer QBE has settled a class action over ANZ’s sale of allegedly worthless add-on insurance, and the applicants are “hopeful” that the bank and two other named insurers will soon reach a deal to resolve the claims against them.

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Class action wants AMP, Clayton Utz emails over controversial fees for no service report
Financial Services 2022-10-12 2:57 pm By Sam Matthews

A class action over AMP’s fees for no service practice wants communications with law firm Clayton Utz that led up to a report that allegedly went through 25 rounds of edits with the wealth manager’s inhouse lawyers before being presented to the corporate regulator as independent.

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Paltry pay day for IPO Wealth investors as $5.6M class action settlement approved
Financial Services 2022-10-12 11:06 am By Sam Matthews

Investors in Mayfair Group’s collapsed IPO Wealth Fund have clawed back only a fraction of their alleged $67 million losses after a judge approved a settlement in a class action alleging the fund’s trustee misled unit holders.

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Mayfair’s James Mawhinney wants High Court to shut down ASIC case
Appeals 2022-10-12 9:43 pm By Sam Matthews

The founder of beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has asked the High Court to overturn his own successful Full Court appeal of a decision that saw him banned from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.

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$800M class action to accuse IG Markets of unconscionable conduct over risky CFDs
Class Actions 2022-10-10 1:42 pm By Christine Caulfield

IG Markets faces a potential class action on behalf of up to 20,000 everyday investors who have allegedly lost hundreds of millions of dollars trading in complex financial products known as contracts for difference, or CFDs.

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Mayfair 101 loses appeal of $30M penalty in ASIC’s misleading conduct case
Financial Services 2022-10-10 12:08 pm By Christine Caulfield

In a win for the corporate regulator, an appeals court has rejected investment group Mayfair 101’s appeal of a $30M penalty following a judge’s finding that it misled investors about the level of risk of its financial products.

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Optus to get power to share customer data with banks under regulatory reform
Telecommunications 2022-10-06 11:39 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Rules governing telecommunications companies will be amended in the wake of the Optus data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 10 million customers.

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