The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants to investigate the conduct of a Worrells partner in relation to the winding up of Members Alliance Group, a group of property investment companies whose 2016 collapse stripped creditors of over $40 million and left its director facing fraud charges.
A former pre-insolvency advisor has been sentenced to four and half years in prison for siphoning money from defunct Telstra dealer Cap Coast Telecoms prior to it being voluntarily wound up.
A group of unsecured creditors of ‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnik’s mining firm Merlin Diamonds has launched a NSW Supreme Court bid to preserve their rights over security interests in the company as the clock ticks down to its impending liquidation.
Superannuation fund promoter MobiSuper faces legal action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, accused of misleading customers in marketing calls.
Former Tennis Australia director Harold Mitchell was “pushing very hard” for the Seven Network to score the domestic broadcast rights to the Australian Open in 2013 over better offers from rival broadcasters, the Federal Court heard Monday.
Three former Vocation executives — including former federal Treasurer John Dawkins — have been hit with disaqualification orders and fines totalling $125,000 after a court found they breached their directors’ duties ahead of the collapse of the education provider.
A hearing scheduled for next year in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s case against two NAB wealth management units will focus solely on how steep a penalty the bank should face after it made admissions about its fees for no service conduct.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought legal action against a financial planner and advice firm formerly owned by ANZ Bank after they were examined as a Royal Commission case study on “bad advice”.
The corporate regulator has imposed additional licence conditions on wealth manager IOOF to combat conflicts of interest in the group’s business structure revealed by the banking royal commission.
The Full Federal Court has handed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission a win in a high-stakes appeal over what constitutes personal advice under financial services laws, finding Westpac violated its duty to act in its customers best interests through a superannuation rollover campaign.