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Confusion over RG 146 requirements

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
The Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association (SAFAA) has sought clarity from ASIC on what continuous professional development (CPD) financial advisers are still required to do. SAFAA chief executive Judith Fox said that the association was getting ...

Aberdeen Standard launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched a new global small caps fund, offering access to high-growth opportunities and portfolio diversification. ASI said the fund aims to provide investors and financial advisers with access to a high-conviction ...

Bad news for BDMs despite industry-wide uptick

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
The latest market update for financial services in Australia from Kaizen Recruitment contains some welcome good news, but times remain tough for business development managers. Kaizen recently surveyed over 50 financial services organisations regarding ...

ASIC mainly concerned with media releases: Lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... even more regulation adding to this burden. "Lawyers are nowhere near as heavily regulated as the financial planning profession. Planners have been legislated to within an inch of their lives," he said. "And, sadly, some planners have paid with their ...

Aussie financial firms struggle to manage risk: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Australian financial firms are struggling to keep up with the pace of technological change, with two thirds of executives revealing that risks are emerging more rapidly than ever before. More than 70 Australian senior risk executives from the major ...

Iress opens retail capital raise

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Financial services software company Iress has opened up a capital raise for eligible shareholders, as it moves to raise a further $20 million to help partly fund its proposed acquisition of OneVue. It comes following the completion of the company's ...

JBWere nabs J.P. Morgan executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
JBWere has announced the appointment of a new chief investment officer, hiring a member of J.P. Morgan's executive team. Sally Auld has been selected to take on the role, having worked at J.P. Morgan for close to 12 years. She was most recently chief ...

NowInfinity founders depart following acquisition

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
The founders of corporate compliance and documentation platform NowInfinity will depart the business following its integration with SMSF platform Class. Amreeta Abbott and Vitalii Symon will step aside to pursue other projects after the platform was ...

Calls for overhaul of AFSL system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) wants a professional registration for individual advisers to replace the current system. Currently, an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) is required to provide advice. FPA chief executive ...

FASEA boycott sparks in-fighting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... step contributing to transitioning the financial advice industry to, in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's words, a true 'profession'," Assistant Minister for superannuation, financial services and financial technology Jane Hume said. "This long standing measure ...