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ASIC hits former Westpac, NAB, YBR adviser with permanent ban

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... customers paying for such services. The watchdog outlined that instances in which licensees claiming to provide only general advice to retail clients while selling financial products but are actually providing personal advice will also be further scr ...

ASIC to target non-compliant advisers and AFSLs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... customers paying for such services. The watchdog outlined that instances in which licensees claiming to provide only general advice to retail clients while selling financial products but are actually providing personal advice will also be further scrutinised. ...

BTFG names insurers on expanded APL

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... client-facing advice and private wealth businesses working together. Employees that provide digital and phone-based general advice are now housed in the customer service division under the leadership of chief operating officer Andrew Walker. The restructure ...

General advice "misleading": Productivity Commission

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
The Productivity Commission is calling for the existing notion of general advice to be scrapped. In its draft report into competition in the Australian financial system, the Productivity Commission argues the use of the term 'advice' should be limited ...

BTFG head of platforms to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
... led by current general manager of private wealth Jane Watts. BTFG employees that provide digital and phone-based general advice will now be housed in BTFG's customer service division within the chief operating office, with Andrew Walker remaining as ...

Accessing financial wellbeing: The power of general advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... start?', Bineham will be joined by FinFocus Consulting's Simon Micallef to discuss the increasing provision of general advice via digital solutions and where the threshold lies between general and personal advice. Bineham will provide a case ...

BT Financial Group merges wealth businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... led by current general manager of private wealth Jane Watts. BTFG employees that provide digital and phone-based general advice will now be housed in BTFG's customer service division within the chief operating office, with Andrew Walker remaining as ...

Advisers can scale via workplace super clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... become the natural point of contact for members beyond super needs by providing specialist advice whether it be general advice, insurance, mortgage broking or something else altogether. The companies an adviser provides workplace super advice for could ...

ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... receive such services. ASIC said it will pay particular attention to instances where AFS licensees claim to provide general advice to retail clients when selling financial products (and therefore do not need to comply with the best interests duty and ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... was a fresh revelation that ASIC is concerned some CBA customers may have been given personal advice rather than general advice during the sale of the bank's superannuation product - Essential Super. The bank's statement was kept short, noting: "we continue ...