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Chief economist update: Could COVID-19 dissenters be correct?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... to name a few". No harm, no foul. China, Russia, Cuba, North Korea are heavens compared to one gentle reader's advice for me to go back to the treetops where I came from [a decade ago]. But I digress. As it turns out, Australia's state of Victoria ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... MySuper into a retirement product is tedious with cumbersome paperwork." Rice Warner said as APRA funds look to providing advice for their members, they are hampered by holding only a part of a member's financial assets, so any intra-fund advice does ...

AFA, FPA share bleak view of industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... Australians are accessing financial advice, the logical end result of a smaller industry. The cost of providing financial advice for advisers and the reduction in access and affordability of financial advice for Australian consumers was a focus for both ...

JBWere appoints advice general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... chief investment officer with a new general manager of advice. Andrew Bird, who was most recently JBWere's head of advice for Victoria, is moving into the role of general manager, advice after three and a half years with the company. Bird replaces ...

Now is the time to step up: FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... that news when you can only do it over video conference is quite a difficult thing to face," she explained. Tullio's advice for anyone feeling overwhelmed amid current events is simple: take three deep breaths and remember what you're grateful for. "Take ...

Former Spectrum Wealth, NAB advisers banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... financial services. Additionally, the regulator also banned former NAB adviser Alexander Thomas from providing financial advice for three years. Thomas was an authorised representative of National Australia Bank between 2008 and 2017, and of Forsyths ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... compliance burden as their biggest challenge, with advisers spending an average of 6.2 hours to produce a Statement of Advice for the typical client. "So as big a disrupter COVID-19 has been, it's still hasn't topped the impact of FoFA and the ...

Asset manager hires new chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... accountants, Michael leads with steady hands and a total commitment towards providing forward looking and strategic investment advice for Australian clients," Larkin said. The company said Barnes will ensure the due diligence portfolio management team ...

Could relief on advice compliance save consumers?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... is to free up capacity so advisers can focus on seeing clients and everyday Australians and help them get the right advice for their particular circumstances." The relief The Advisers Association is proposing includes increasing the time an adviser has ...

Count Financial adds tech integrations

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
Count Financial has launched a series of back-end tech integrations to improve adviser efficiencies and deliver better experiences for clients. The new integrations have helped save the licensee thousands of man-hours. Countplus chief executive and ...