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Advice disciplinary body delayed

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... working through the design features of the disciplinary body, which is a key element in professionalising the financial advice industry, she said. Hume was aware of what the delay meant for the financial advice industry which has been operating without ...

Challenges on the horizon for CountPlus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... four were terminated. "Various Count Financial firms made decision regarding their ability to continue to offer financial advice as a service under this revised model," Rowe said. The new advisers that came on board have generated $301,000 of annual ...

Sam Henderson pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... descriptions included the claim that he had a Master of Commerce. 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 ...

Roar Software bolsters team, partners with Milliman

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... and provide a different perspective, without judgement," Liao said. "Roar Software is providing the future of financial advice today, offering financial advisers a fresh approach to technology, with genuine flexibility and an integrated approach to help ...

FS Power50: Vote now

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... 'influential' as individuals who have been, or continue to be, instrumental in shaping the future of financial advice in Australia. These are financial advisers who have actively participated in industry-based activities, community-based projects ...

Advice remediation tops $1bn

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... ASIC. ASIC said the $1.05 billion figure had been reached at 30 June 2020. The payments relate to ASIC report 499 Financial advice: Fees for no service and ASIC report 515 Financial advice: Review of how large institutions oversee their advisers. When ...

ASIC takes action against BTFM, Asgard, StatePlus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... alleges that on 2643 occasions from September 2014 to August 2017 Asgard charged 404 customers around $130,006 for financial advice after requests were made for advisers to be removed from their product accounts and after the advisers ceased providing ...

Calls for consent forms, opt-ins to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... Ardino and Synchron chair Michael Harrison, the dealer groups argued that the Royal Commission and Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms have been unsuccessful and have only made advice less accessible to ordinary Australians. Ardino and Harrison ...

Class announces $4.2m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... operating a platform that has delivered over 500,000 documents to accounting, professional services firms and financial advice networks. Class chief executive Andrew Russell said the acquisition will complement Class' NowInfinity business and help grow ...

FSC calls for scaled advice model

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... affordable advice to Australians at a time when they need it most. The COVID-19 crisis has seen a surge in demand for financial advice on issues relating to redundancies, retirement, life insurance and superannuation, the FSC said. Yet, increased costs ...