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Number one challenge for advice firms revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... advice firms are being incredibly purposeful about how they grow their businesses, how they improve their processes and being aware of the obstacles they need to overcome," Krieger said. "On the operational side, though, it seems the regulatory environment ...

Courtenay House director faces court for alleged fraud offences

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
... occurred. As a contractor, Papoulas continued to promote the Courtenay House business and receive commissions despite becoming aware that Iervasi was operating an unlicensed financial services business, and that Papoulias dealt with money or other property ...

Aware Super chief executive named Fund Executive of the Year

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
Chief executive of Aware Super Deanne Stewart has been awarded the 2021 Fund Executive Association Limited (FEAL) Fund Executive of the Year. The annual award, now in its 20th year, recognises a superannuation fund executive who has made an outstanding ...

MLC to face court over insurance failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
... arthritis in a timely manner, resulting in 12 customers with the condition being denied cover. Documents state MLC became aware of its outdated definitions by 2014 but did not update the relevant policies until mid-2017 and April 2019. It is also alleged ...

ASIC issues warning to finfluencer sponsors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021
... shares in a bid to raise hype about a listed company and bolster its share price. "[It] is important for companies to be aware of these types of misconduct-related risks and their potential for unintended consequences arising from finfluencer collaboration," ...

Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... of Australian industry will be caught unprepared for the rapid shift to a low-carbon economy." Whitehead said FINSIA is aware of regulator and economists' concerns and is focusing the Institute's role to highlight climate science skills as a critical ...

Adviser exits continue, industry recruits 50

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... Financial Planning (411) and Consultum Financial Advisers (375). Morgans (179), Commonwealth FP (179) and Aware Financial Services (162) are the largest licensees when it comes to providing risk advice. As for the largest superannuation advice businesses ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... written in the active voice. The benchmark is 95%. The document with the highest number of active voice sentences was an Aware Super company policy, of which 89.2% of sentences are in active voice. The lowest percentage of sentences in active voice was ...

Financial services feels talent crunch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
According to SEEK data, the number of unemployed people to each job vacancy is at an all-time low and financial services specialist recruiter Kaizen has confirmed the industry is also suffering a dearth of talent. In its most recent quarterly update ...

Greater diversity needed outside ASX 200: Analysis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... of subsidiaries. While much has been said in recent times about the progress the ASX 200 is making, when it comes to financial services companies in the ASX 200, women comprise just 1% of chief technology officer roles; 2% of chief investment officer ...