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More than 1700 advisers gone already

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2022
... more than 1700 financial advisers have dropped off its register since January. Analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows there is now 16,413 financial advisers currently active. At the beginning of the year, there was 17,668. This means that ...

Advice requirements confusing, complex: JAWG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... Associations Working Group said. In its submission, the group outlined five key interdependent recommendations to ensure that financial advice is provided in the best interests of consumers. It tabled consumer focus, a recognition of professional, regulatory ...

May exam sees 43% pass rate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... the exam and about 91% have passed. Of those, more than 15,600 are listed as currently active on the Financial Adviser Register, ASIC said, and just 600 were new entrants to the industry. However, more than 2400 of the candidates that passed have since ...

Clear up uncertainty: AFA, FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... requirements, consolidation of advice fee authorisation requirements, aligning the CPD year with the Financial Adviser Register registration/renewal period or with the financial year, and the temporary COVID-19 relief measures to be made permanent." ...

ASIC bans financial adviser for five years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... didn't permit him to trade shares on, or operate, managed discretionary accounts, ASIC said. The ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows Guan was an authorised representative of Lifespan Financial Planning until March 2021 before a two-month stint with ...

Record number of adviser graduates: Kaplan

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... months to the end of March 2022;3075 advisers exited the industry in this period. Analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register also showed that the number of financial advisers is now back to where it was in 2014. Nevertheless, Kaplan chief executive ...

Allianz subsidiary, former portfolio managers charged over massive fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... that he, alongside co-lead portfolio manager Trevor L. Taylor and portfolio manager Stephen G. Bond-Nelson, manipulated financial reports and other information for investors to conceal the strategy's true risk and actual performance. For example ...

We knew people would leave the advice industry: Hume

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
The regulatory transition of the financial advice industry has been cumbersome for many people but senator Jane Hume believes the worst of it is over. In an interview with Stockspot, Hume welcomed the proper professionalism of the financial advice industry ...

3000 advisers left industry last year

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
... left the industry in the last 12 months, according to Rainmaker's most recent analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register. The number of ASIC-registered financial advisers decreased 15% through the 12 months to end March 2022 to reach 17,602. This ...

ASIC releases latest adviser exam results

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... close to 20,000 candidates have sat the exam to date, with 91% passing. That said, analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows there is now only about 17,000 advisers active in the industry. ASIC even acknowledged this, saying of those that ...