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Clime chief executive resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
Clime Investment Management chief executive Annick Donat is exiting shortly after the ASX-listed firm announced an overhaul of its business model. Donat said she decided to step down after three years in the top job. Her final day is July 31. Before ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... is expected to slug financial advisers $48.39 million collectively as the annual levy does not appear to be reducing. Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial products are due to fork out a minimum levy of $1500 ...

ASIC calls out sloppy adviser data

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
ASIC is reprimanding AFS licensees (AFSL) for submitting inaccurate information about their financial advisers and will ramp up its enforcement from August. AFSLs are making numerous errors when it comes to providing data on the Financial Advisers Register ...

Clime completes Madison Financial sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... corporate advice at TIP Group. In addition, Baragwanath serves as a responsible manager for several financial services licensees. He was previously responsible manager for Spaceship and has held executive roles at BT. Clime said his extensive experience ...

APRA: RSE licensees show 'common areas of weakness'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a letter to all registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees sharing the initial observations from its targeted thematic review of the superannuation industry's preparedness for Prudential ...

ASIC alerts licensees to experienced pathway deadlines

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
ASIC has issued a reminder to the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees regarding the upcoming notification obligations related to the new experienced provider pathway. Starting from next week, AFS licensees must notify ASIC by lodging a notice ...

ASIC calls out licensees: 'We will take action'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Alan Kirkland issued a blunt warning to licensees not meeting their obligations. Speaking at an industry event, Kirkland said the regulator has spent two years warning licensees to ...

AFSLs undertake more reviews, lack risk documentation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
Most AFS Licensees (AFSLs) are undertaking more reviews of their systems and processes but still lack documentation when it comes to managing risk, according to a new compliance survey. Holley Nethercote's 2024 Compliance Trends Survey reveals AFSLs ...

Will ASIC use AI for advice compliance monitoring?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... coming into the market to develop AI applications for financial advice." However, careful oversight is crucial. Some licensees have already encountered risks with AI, as it records comments made by advisers, potentially leading to unintentional advice ...

Super Members Council renews calls for anti-hawking extension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
... April 2022 and March 2023, it found that 476,452 member accounts were charged $990.4 million in advice fees by 1803 licensees. It also found that some trustees have advice fee caps as high as $20,000 or 5% of a member's balance and that few trustees ...