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19 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-314MR ASIC action leads to CommInsure refunds of $12 million for unfair life insurance telephone sales

Following concerns raised by ASIC about unfair telephone sales of life insurance, The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited (trading as ...

19 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-313MR CommInsure pleads guilty to hawking offences

The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited, trading as CommInsure, has today pleaded guilty to 87 counts of offering to sell insurance ...

15 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-312MR ASIC disqualifies director from managing companies for maximum five years

Keith John Lemon of The Entrance, NSW, has been disqualified by ASIC from managing companies for the maximum period of five years. Mr Lemon was ...

15 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-311MR ASIC disqualifies WA director from managing companies for five years

ASIC has disqualified Ms Joanne Jennifer Pellew (also known as Pellew-Hajinoor), of Ascot, WA, from managing companies for five years. Ms Pellew was ...

15 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-310MR ASIC bans former director of property development companies from managing corporations

ASIC has disqualified Mr Kenneth Wen Hsi Lee, of Lurnea, New South Wales, from managing corporations for a period of two years. Mr Lee was a former ...

14 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-309MR ASIC relief from financial adviser compliance scheme obligations takes effect

ASIC has taken action to provide certainty to Australian financial services (AFS) licensees that they will not be in breach of the law because their ...

13 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-308MR ASIC gives guidance on companies’ whistleblower policies and relief to small not-for-profits

ASIC has provided guidance to assist companies meet their obligation to have a whistleblower policy. As part of the corporate sector whistleblower ...

13 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-307MR Pre-insolvency adviser sentenced to four and half years imprisonment for money laundering

Former pre-insolvency adviser John Narramore has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison, with a non-parole period of 20 months, at ...

13 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-306MR ASIC asks Federal Court to inquire into conduct of Gold Coast liquidator

On 7 November 2019, as part of the Commonwealth’s Serious Financial Crime Taskforce’s efforts, ASIC filed an application with the Federal Court ...

8 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE
19-305MR ASIC cancels AFS licence of Southern Mortgages Ltd

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Warrnambool-based responsible entity, Southern Mortgages Ltd (SML), for failure ...

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