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IOOF follow-on shareholder class action flops
Financial Services 2020-05-25 4:13 pm By Christine Caulfield

Eight months after defeating a case brought by the prudential regulator alleging breaches of superannuation laws, wealth manager IOOF has escaped a class action without […]

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New shareholder class action against IOOF alleges extensive misconduct
Class Actions 2020-02-24 3:00 am By Christine Caulfield

Financial services provider IOOF may have beaten back regulatory action, but it still faces the wrath of shareholders, with a new class action claiming the […]

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Royal commission class actions keep rolling in, one year after Hayne report
Financial Services 2020-01-23 7:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A year after Commissioner Kenneth Hayne released his scathing report, companies in the financial services sector are still facing fresh class actions over conduct aired […]

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IOOF unit’s appeal targets Sparke Helmore
Legal Ethics 2020-01-13 4:48 pm By Miklos Bolza

An IOOF subsidiary has appealed a $76.6 million judgment finding it breached its duty in relation to the sale of a 46,000 hectare plantation by […]

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ASIC hits IOOF with extra licence conditions to combat conflicts
Financial Services 2019-10-28 2:38 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

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 […]

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Sparke Helmore off the hook as court slams IOOF unit with $81M judgment over plantation sale
Restructuring & Insolvency 2019-09-26 2:50 pm By Miklos Bolza

IOOF subsidiary Australian Executor Trustees has been hit with an $80.6 million judgment after breaching its duty as trustee in the sale of a 42,000 […]

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APRA defends decision to bring failed IOOF case
Financial Services 2019-09-20 8:03 pm By Amelia Birnie

The prudential regulator is standing by its decision to bring proceedings against IOOF for alleged breaches of superannuation duties, despite criticism that such a “highly […]

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Judge slams APRA case against IOOF as ‘fundamentally inadequate’ and ‘tenuous in the extreme’
Financial Services 2019-09-20 10:04 am By Amelia Birnie

APRA’s purely documentary case against troubled fund manager IOOF has been dismissed by the Federal Court as “unpersuasive”, “fundamentally inadequate” and “tenuous in the extreme”, […]

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Judgment looms for IOOF execs in APRA’s disqualification case
Financial Services 2019-09-17 11:53 am By Christine Caulfield

Five IOOF executives will learn their fate this week when a judge rules on a disqualification bid by the prudential regulator, the first judgment to […]

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IOOF CFO slams disqualification case as ‘egregious’ example of impulsive enforcement
Financial Services 2019-07-16 5:12 pm By Amelia Birnie

Lawyers for IOOF chief financial officer David Coulter have dismissed APRA’s allegations that he breached his superannuation duties as commercially “naïve”, “absolutely desperate” and a […]

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