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Former Securitor manager joins Paragem

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... former Securitor state manager in a general manager role. Paragem has appointed Craig Kouimanis as a general manager of practice development to help support advisers and their practices as the industry undergoes significant upheaval. Kouimanis will be ...

Super fund reveals ASX 100 equality laggards

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), giving them an averaged percentage score for how close the company was to meeting best practice. The big four performed well, with National Australia Bank, Westpac, ANZ, and the Commonwealth Bank scoring 89%, 89%, 88% and ...

Calls for review of advice regulation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... regulatory framework," CPA said. "Depending on how the licensing and registration system is set up, an accountant in practice may need to hold multiple licenses and/or registration to be able to provide one piece of advice." The advocacy body highlighted ...

AMP to pay $5m for churn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... and supervision of advisers. Acknowledging the court decision, AMP said: "While insurance rewriting was not a common practice by financial advisers at AMP Financial Planning, the conduct identified in the case was clearly unacceptable and customers were ...

Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... contending with increased education and professional standards, as well as other reforms to business fee models and falling practice valuations. The changes stand to penalise all clients, regardless of the quality of service and advice they've received ...

Perth advice firm folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... main related firm) was run by Robert Hutchison and Dayle Hutchison, who were directors, shareholders and advisers at the practice. The main advice firm generated about $300,000 in profits for the 2018/2019 financial year from a total income of about ...

BetaShares calls for universal pension

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... portion of compulsory super contributions into defined benefit schemes. "Australia is well-positioned to implement a best practice universal pension within its retirement income system," Cohen added. "Where the universal pension has failed elsewhere ...

Dealer group restructures leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... at Synchron. Meanwhile, Alison Massey has also been promoted to head of compliance - advice assurance from her role as practice development manager. "In 2016, we recruited Michael Jones as head of compliance to allow Synchron director, John Prossor ...

AMP urged to mediate with advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell, has urged AMP to formally commit to mediation as it moves to exit up to 250 financial planning businesses. Carnell said over 80 AMP advisers have visited her offices in the ...

SSGA to scrutinise ASX 100 directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... practices, and consumer product safety," the letter said. "We believe that addressing material ESG issues is good business practice and essential to a company's long-term financial performance - a matter of value, not values." Taraporevala made it clear ...