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Vale Tony Bongiorno

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023
Tony Bongiorno, a veteran of the financial advice industry and founding partner of the Bongiorno Group, passed away on October 6. Bongiorno helped establish the Melbourne-based group, which specialises in providing financial advice to medical professionals ...

Adviser cops 10-year sentence

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2023
... specific deterrence must still carry some weight in the sentencing discretion." Nugara was licensed as an authorised representative of Sentry Financial Planning until 19 April 2013. On 24 May 2014, Skynet became licensed under Financial Services Partners ...

ASIC bans former risk adviser

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
Former insurance adviser John Durant has been banned by the regulator for three years after he was found to have told clients to deposit insurance premiums directly into his personal account. Durant is prohibited from providing financial services, controlling ...

Skynet adviser stole $10.2m: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... worked for Westpac, NAB and CBA, providing clients advice on shares and property. He was licensed as an authorised representative of Sentry Financial Planning until 19 April 2013. On 24 May 2014, Skynet became a licensed under Financial Services Partners ...

ASIC fines fintech for misrepresenting crypto product

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
... regarding the representations. The undertakings include that Bobbob and Goldberg will each cease to be an authorised representative of Sanlam Private Wealth, the AFSL which authorised Bobbob to offer the product. Bobbob will not provide financial services ...

Bridges adviser base drops 20%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
Bridges Financial Services continues to bleed advisers, losing nearly 20% of its authorised representatives this month, as parent company Insignia Financial ramps up its restructure. Twenty-three Bridges authorised representatives ceased on the ASIC ...

NextGen Financial Group forced into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023
... recommended they invest in a fund he had interest in. In November 2021, ASIC banned Keith Robert McDermott, an authorised representative of The FinancialLink Group at the time, from managing, supervising, or auditing the provision of financial services. ...

Priority Advisory Group, Wise Planners merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
Two financial advice firms both backed by AZ NGA will merge to provide holistic as well as workplace financial advice. Priority Advisory Group and Wise Planners (which also operates under Lifestyle Financial Services), will operate under Priority's ...

Sequoia liquidates Libertas Financial Planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
Libertas Financial Planning is in the process of liquidation, a decision made by parent company Sequoia Financial Group four years after it was acquired. Libertas' operations and customers will transfer to Interprac Financial Planning and Sequoia ...

Guideway launches file note AI tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023
Guideway Financial Services has a new tool built on generative artificial intelligence (AI) that accurately converts client conversations into file notes, saving financial advisers up to two hours in administration time. FinTalk, which was built in-house ...