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AFA expands support for paraplanners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) launched a new community of practice for paraplanners. AFA Pulse has been designed as an online community, launched with a Facebook page. Any AFA members who are paraplanners or looking to move into paraplanning ...

FPA launches Tinder for advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... consumers and FPA members to enhance client trust and communication. "We have built a new tool which is effectively the world's first dating app for consumers connecting with a financial planner called Match My Planner," chief executive of the FPA Dante ...

Advice associations weigh in on member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
The peak bodies representing financial advisers have taken similar positions on the Government's latest round of superannuation reforms. In submissions to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee on the Putting Members' Interests First Bill ...

Reform implementation timeframe too short: AustralianSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
The Government's move to require superannuation trustees to stop providing opt-out insurance to new members under-25 or with low balance accounts by October 1 has riled Australia's largest fund. Airing the fund's position on the Government's ...

OnePath receives first Life Code sanction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
OnePath is the subject of the first sanction to be issued by the Life Code Compliance Committee for failure to stop selling a non-compliant product and remediate customers by an agreed deadline. In July 2017 OnePath self-reported its ANZ Loan Protection ...

Paradice hires from Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
Paradice Investment Management has added to its distribution team with a hire from Pengana Capital, as it launches a new fund. Dan McAleer is Paradice's new distribution manager based in Melbourne. He has 12 years of experience and was in a similar ...

AFCA delivers $83 million win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has collected over $83 million for consumers and small businesses in just six months. In its first six months of operations, AFCA received over 35,000 complaints and 60% of those have already been resolved. ...

Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
With business conditions and confidence like it is, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s full employment target just got a little harder to meet. Recall that in his speech at the RBA board dinner with the business community on June 4 - the night ...

Putting Members' Interests First Bill reintroduced

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
Legislation that prevents trustees from providing opt-out insurance to new members under 25 and low balance account holders was reintroduced in Parliament overnight. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019, which was ...

Xplore Wealth launches new solution

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
In its first major move since rebranding, Xplore Wealth launched a new wrap platform. The first major product initiative since shedding its managedaccounts.com.au branding earlier this year, Xplore Wrap is Xplore Wealth's new platform offering to advisers ...