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Robo-advice a complement, not disruptor: Six Park

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
The advice industry is faced with increasing demand for affordable and accessible financial advice and implementing digital solutions to segment clients could be the answer, according to a new whitepaper. Digital advice provider Six Park's latest whitepaper ...

Bumpy quarter for AMP

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... remaining focused on supporting our clients through programs such as the early release of super, and by providing financial advice to those who need it." AMP's three-year turnaround strategy is now moving into its second year. De Ferrari said the ...

Centrepoint hires recruitment lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
Centrepoint Alliance has appointed a financial advice industry recruitment specialist to lead its national recruitment strategy. Charles Smith joins the ASX-listed firm as national recruitment manager. He was most recently at MLC Wealth where he spent ...

Cost of advice soars as red tape grows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... planning profession is creating significant risks. "While we welcome reforms that improve the overall standard of financial advice, financial planners and their clients are paying an unreasonably high price for it," De Gori said. The FPA found that ...

Sam Henderson sentenced

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... 2017 as well as in an information memorandum dated May 2011. Henderson was the subject of a case study on bad financial advice at the Royal Commission and was subsequently banned from providing financial services for a period of three years. During the ...

The case for an overhaul of advice: Rice Warner, FSC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... report by Rice Warner that makes a series of recommendations that would significantly change the status quo of financial advice and lead to policy debate. Rice Warner's Future of Advice report proposes a raft of changes to definitions, documentation ...

Self-licensing on the horizon

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
Consolidation in the financial advice industry is leading to a second wave of advisers leaving big institutions and potentially taking the self-licensing path. This is according to Centrepoint Alliance group executive of advice Paul Cullen, who said ...

BT cuts Wealth Connect

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... advice and changing consumer behaviours. In September 2018, BTFG announced it was reviewing its business model for financial advice and would be scrapping its virtual advice initiative, resulting in significant redundancies. Finally, in May of this year ...

A new model is coming: Licensees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... executive Alison Dummett discuss the biggest issues facing the industry. High on the agenda was the affordability of financial advice for ordinary Australians, not just the extremely wealthy. Dummett was asked about the regulatory burden on licensees. ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Advisers annual conference, shadow minister for financial services Stephen Jones outlined Labor's vision for financial advice and admitted to apprehension on life insurance. Jones said, referring to the ASIC review of the life insurance industry ...