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Sam Henderson cops ASIC ban

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... repeatedly pushing Fair Work commissioner Donna McKenna to establish a self-managed superannuation fund to be managed by his practice. She refused but the foundation piece of the resulting Statement of Advice was the establishment of said SMSF. Had McKenna ...

Radar Results hires Queensland manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
Financial advice practice broking firm Radar Results has appointed a new manager for the Queensland region. Susannah Hart is the new Queensland manager from today. She joined Radar Results in October 2018, working as a licensed business buyer's agent ...

Member interests delay recommended

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... arguments hinged on the difficulties in renegotiating insurance contracts, noting super funds were well versed in the practice. "While mindful of this concern, the committee considers that renegotiating insurance contracts is not an unfamiliar process ...

Julie Bishop headlines AFA conference

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... trapped in a cave in 2018. Ethics and trust commentator Clare Payne will also appear as well as financial standards best practice expert Michelle Hoskin. Wine industry entrepreneur Warren Randall will give a presentation on the importance of flexibility ...

APRA proposes new remuneration standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... approve and actively oversee remuneration policies for all employees, and regularly confirm they are being applied in practice to ensure individual and collective accountability. Deputy chair John Lonsdale said CPS 511 would complement the Banking Executive ...

AFA expands support for paraplanners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) launched a new community of practice for paraplanners. AFA Pulse has been designed as an online community, launched with a Facebook page. Any AFA members who are paraplanners or looking to move into paraplanning ...

FPA launches Tinder for advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... wants." He explained the tool will allow advisers and clients to be matched based on age, gender, location, values, fees, practice size and ownership. Match My Planner has come about as a result of research commissioned by the FPA in 2017 to find out ...

ASIC moves to ban direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
ASIC moved to ban the unsolicited telephone sales of life and consumer credit insurance. Consultation is open for ASIC's proposal to ban the sale of direct life and consumer credit insurance by unsolicited phone calls, in a move the corporate regulator ...

Platform provider divests advice firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
An ASX-listed platform provider has sold its 50% equity holding in a Queensland-based financial planning practice. Xplore Wealth has divested its holding in McGregor Wealth Management, signing an agreement to transfer its shareholding back to an entity ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... commence. Additionally, the regulator will begin consultation to ban unsolicited outbound CCI sales over the phone. The practice has come under scrutiny recently, after the Royal Commission and ASIC's review of direct life insurance revealed issues emanating ...