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Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... executive Phil Stockwell - that it eliminated investments that posed a risk to the environment and the community, including gambling, coal mining, and oil tar sands. Court documents showed that Active Super said it wouldn't invest in companies deriving ...

Super SA names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... almost a decade as South Australia's commissioner for consumer affairs, commissioner for corporate affairs, liquor and gambling commissioner and commissioner for prices. At the same time, he led the operation of Consumer and Business Services within ...

Jailed adviser permanently banned by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... former financial adviser who was jailed for stealing more than $1 million from his clients' superannuation to feed a gambling problem is now permanently banned from the industry. In September 2023, Mark Raymond Sebo was found guilty of misappropriating ...

GESB debuts first sustainable option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023
... excluded differing across asset classes, they include things like fossil fuels, alcohol, pornography, uranium, logging, gambling, animal cruelty, predatory lending, or companies found to have significantly breached social or environmental norms or regulations. ...

Former adviser lands in jail

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
A former financial adviser who took more than $1 million from clients to feed his online gambling addiction has been sentenced to jail for five years. The District Court of Western Australia found Mark Raymond Sebo guilty of misappropriating $1,056,685.18 ...

Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... that posed too great a risk to the environment and the community, including tobacco manufacturing, oil tar sands and gambling," ASIC said. "Active Super also stated that they had added Russia to their list of excluded countries, following the invasion ...

ASIC looking to send message with eToro action

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... as 'financial heroin hits," she said. "We consider, and the court in that case considered, CFDs to be little more than gambling. We know that most people who invest in these products lose their money and that those losses are substantial." After the ...

Former adviser jailed for nine years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
... October 2016 and March 2020, the District Court of New South Wales heard on April 21, only to use the funds to feed his gambling addiction. The hearing detailed how Fineff played his unwitting clients, 11 of which were approached to invest in Sentinel ...

Early super release scheme a mistake: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... result of the pandemic, the study also found many used withdrawn funds for non-essential purchases such as takeout food, gambling, and furniture. To prevent future governments from opening access to super during economic downturns, the ISA recommended ...

Expect more greenwashing action: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2023
... Superannuation exposed investors to industries the fund said were excluded from the offering, such as coal, alcohol production and gambling," Longo said in his speech. ASIC alleges Mercer made false and misleading statements and engaged in conduct that ...
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