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The AFCA – An Introductory...

This article was published in Brief Magazine. It sets out an overview about how AFCA operates. See Our Article

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Litigation and Regulatory Risk Update...

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Litigation and Regulatory Risk Update...

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Devil in detail of fee...

This article is about possible changes to the Corporations Act that are intended to reduce the costs associated with providing financial advice to retail clients. See Our Article

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Notify Investigate and Remediate

This article is about the new Corporations Act provisions that require an AFSL holder to Notify, Investigate and Remediate when a breach of the Corporations Act has occurred. See Our Article

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New Rules to Undo Bad...

This article is about changes to the Corporations Act that require AFSL holders to pay compensation to clients. See Our Article

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Funds lost to foreign trading...

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Lending law changes perfect for...

This article is about the proposed scrapping of the responsible lending laws and how you can protect yourself once those laws are gone. See Our Article

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Dogy spruikers still playing same...

I've recently been reading about a failed investment sceme. What struck me was that I recall hearing about the same types of scheme nearly 30years ago when I first started working in financial services. See Our Article

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Westpac embroiled in alleged $240m...

Westpac's role in an unlicensed investment scheme allegedly responsible for $240 million in investor losses is under scrutiny, as the corporate regulator and courts examine deposites into the personal bank accounts of controversial Perth businessman Chirs Marco. See Our Article

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Customers in Financial Difficulty

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Beware of scammers spruiking property

This article is about property scammers who have been very active over the last few years. See Our Article

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Balance of power shifts in...

The article examines the implications of the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Young Investment v QBE for the future conduct of professional indemnity insurers. We acted for the plaintiffs in these proceedings. See Our Article

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Investor recovers $10m Stripe Capital...

This article is about the Supreme Court of WA case Young Investment v QBE. We acted for the plaintiffs and obtained a judgment in excess of $11.2M for them. See Our Article

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Investor who took on banned...

This article is about the Supreme Court of WA case Young Investment v QBE. We acted for the plaintiffs and obtained a judgment in excess of $11.2M for them. See Our Article

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PI blues: WA court orders...

This article is about the Supreme Court of WA case Young Investment v QBE. We acted for the plaintiffs and obtained a judgment in excess of $11.2M for them. See Our Article

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WA investor wins $11.2m payout...

This article is about the Supreme Court of WA case Young Investment v QBE. We acted for the plaintiffs and obtained a judgment in excess of $11.2M for them. See Our Article

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AFCA THE COMING CYCLONE IF...

It is proposed that AFCA’s jurisdiction is to be extended such that it can deal with disputes going back to 1 January 2008. This proposal may have very significant consequences. See Our Article

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Australian Financial Complaints Authority Open...

This article examines the effect of the Hayne Royal Commission on AFCA’s operations and argues that disputes about residential property investment are likely to be a major source of future complaints. See Our Article

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Fees For No Service –...

This article examines the developing scandal concerning fees for no service that have been charged by all of the major financial services providers. See Our Article

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The Coming Storm: The Australian...

This article provides an overview as to how AFCA operates and discusses how it will interact with the court system. See Our Article

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The Australian Financial Complaints Authority...

This article is about the Australian Financial Complaints Authority and the very substantial advantages that this body will offer consumers who have received poor financial advice or who have been unfairly treated by their bank, insurer or the provider of...

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Fraudulent property investment – The...

This is an article about a client who was tricked into a buying a house and land package in Tasmania by a financial planning firm based in Perth. The firm gives the appearance that it is financial planning firm but...

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Comminsure’s continued failure to pay...

This article is about Comminsure’s continued failure to pay out on a TPD claim. CBA, after adverse publicity about its insurance arm, had made public statements to the effect that it was changing its practices but it seemed that there...

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Fake financial planning firms –...

This article is about a firm that gives the appearance that it is a financial planning firm. However, the firm is actually a front for a property development business. Clients go to these types of firms expecting to receive financial...

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Comminsure – failure to pay...

This article is about a client who made a claim for Total and Permanent Disablement against Comminsure that was not paid out despite the fact that the client was clearly unable to work. At this time, information had come out...

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Reading Product Disclosure Statements –...

Product Disclosure Statements contain a wealth of very important information. Investors rarely if ever read them. This article is about why Product Disclosure Statements are vitally important document that need to be given very close attention. The example used is...

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Bad investment loans and mortgage...

This article examines the options to an investor who has made a bad investment loan as a result of maladministration in lending by their bank and/or misconduct by their mortgage broker. It is set in the context of an investment...

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Insurance cover – The West...

Financial advisers are required to hold appropriate professional indemnity insurance cover. This article is about the fact that many financial advisers in contravention of the law either do not hold professional indemnity insurance at all or hold insurance that is...

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Failed forestry scheme leaves investors...

This article is about a very poor agribusiness investment that was made by a client upon the advice of his accountant. The finance was provided by the CBA. See Our Article

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Class actions and time limits...

This article examines the time limits that apply to the making of financial services related claims and how these time limits operate where a person has become involved in a class action. The point of the article being that investors...

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Tax driven investments – The...

This article examines the fact that many poor financial investments are made so as to reduce tax. The investor receives an immediate tax deduction but suffers severe losses later on when the investment performs poorly. The article notes that a...

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Capital protected products – The...

This article discusses the substantial risks that underlay investments in capital protected financial products. These products were marketed as being risk free when in fact there were substantial risks associated with them. See Our Article

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Agribusiness schemes – the role...

This article explores the fact that may investors who lost money as result of investing in an agri-business scheme made the investment on the advice of an accountant. It also examines the issue that poor financial advice that was provided...

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Agribusiness schemes – The West...

This article examines the multiple issued that underlay agri-business schemes that caused many investors to suffer substantial losses. In particular, it examines the way that investors were advised to take out very large loans to make these investments in circumstances...

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