Yesterday, ifa reported that ASIC had banned a Gold Coast-based adviser from providing financial services for six years, saying the former director led clients to believe he had authority to engage in discretionary trading when he actually did not.
Rodney Peters of Mudgeeraba was a director of Australian Share Registry (ASR) and both he and ASR were authorised representatives of Pulse Markets between March 2015 and March 2016.
ifa was alerted to Mr Peters prior employment at ASIC, where he spent nine years and six months as a financial investigator.
ASICs statement yesterday did not reflect Mr Peters prior employment at the authority between 1991 and 2000, instead their statement said that Mr Peters had not complied with the law in engaging in excess of 1,000 options trades on behalf of clients between April 2015 and April 2016.
The authority also said that Pulse was not authorised to engage in discretionary trading, but “only to provide general advice and to trade in equities (options) and derivatives”.
Mr Peters was determined to have conducted options trading on behalf of his clients on a discretionary basis, without their authorisation and in breach of his authorisation from Pulse.
He was also found to misrepresent that he had the authority to engage in discretionary trading.
“ASIC found that Mr Peters was aware that he could not engage in discretionary trading but decided to do so, and further that his conduct was likely to cause clients to assume that he did have authority to engage in this kind of trading,” the regulator said.
Mr Peters has the right to appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of ASIC’s decision.
I notice there’s no mention of his partner in crime the real estate agent who funded Rod whilst operating out of his Clear Island Waters and also the white BMW funded by Peters from proceeds of crime. Needs investigating further.
To be clear – the employment with ASIC was 15 years prior to the wrongdoing. I suspect it likely that any one of us could learn bad habits, or more positively unlearn bad habits over that period of time.
Rod Peters also worked for Mark Tencaten of Global Trading and MTA as a broker whilst bankrupt and almost ruined me financially with my superannuation account through his business Wealth Trading in 2016 .He lied about everything.
Well Well Well. Isn’t it interesting that his substantial employment at ASIC wasn’t mentioned in the official ASIC release?! What other dodgy (former) ASIC employees are out there breaching the law?
This could be interesting ! Someone clearly does not like someone. Revenge ? Vindictiveness ? Allegations of un-resolved harassment complaints ? Just asking ?
LOL – Had a laugh when I saw ASIC left that little gem out.