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Infocus celebrates success

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... Ayesha Brine of Infocus Norwood. Reg Sheridan of Sheridan and Associates was awarded Patron's Excellence in Professional Standards (less than two years with the AFSL) award, while Emma Brooke from GTC Financial Services took out the category for Infocus. ...

ASIC bans deceptive adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... character, making him unsuitable to provide financial services. "Mr Karakatsanis's conduct falls far short of the high standards expected of those in the financial services industry," ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said. "ASIC will continue to protect ...

ANZ wealth sale marks end of an advice era

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... and one of the sources of buyers effectively drops away, where do they go?" Harding-Davis said the new professional standards legislation for advisers would create a further barrier to succession because "not enough qualified young people have come through ...

New life insurance standards for super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
Superannuation trustees and life insurers will be bound by new life insurance standards emerging from an industry leadership group aiming to benchmark best practice. The Superannuation Industry Working Group is a new collaboration between the Australian ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... demand for services from produced assets in Australia, which must tend to lower trend economic growth, income and living standards. "The key barrier is the lack of greenfield investment by the general government sector and corporations (both public and ...

Self-auditing SMSF auditor caught in ASIC breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... which he was both a member and the trustee. Jarjoura is also guilty of breaching the requirements of Australian auditing standards by failing to adopt appropriate procedures for properly maintaining audit documentation. Jarjoura was referred to ASIC ...

Impact investing delivers wide reaching returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... type of report and market intelligence will play an important role in the development of impact performance measurement standards," chief executive of the Global Impact Investing Network, Amit Bouri said. "Achieving a more sophisticated and rigorous ...

Socially responsible XTBs hit ASX

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... as the bond issuer must only use the bonds for purposes that meet the requirements of the Climate Bonds International Standards and Certification Scheme. The 'green' XTBs are part of a release of 10 new XTBs released today. Comprising of five floating-rates ...

Succession planning placed on the backburner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... corporate client centric service and advice models with good processes, latest technology and adherence to the highest standards of compliance are always in demand and receive premium offers." Tynan said the combination of reluctance to change and modernise ...

Elders introduces adviser education scholarships

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... basis. "We have a duty as dealer group to help and support our adviser network now, instead of waiting for an educational standards body to be set up and then map out existing qualifications in order to meet any new guidelines, which could take months ...