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ASIC cancels AFSL of JB Markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... business fails." JB Markets had held its AFSL since 8 July 2008. The licence authorised JB Markets to provide financial product advice, deal in financial products, make a market in financial products and operate custodial or depository services for retail ...

intelliflo adds SMSF cashflow modelling capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... for clients by advisers taking a deeper dive into SMSFs and conducting 'cashflow within cashflow' reviews," intelliflo product strategy lead Stephen Wirth said. "Supporting advisers who are managing clients with more sophisticated multi-entity advice ...

Financial advice exodus has 'bottomed out': ClearView

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024
... around 5000 advisers. It said it is now well-positioned to continue to increase its share of new business and broaden its product offerings. From July 2023 to December 2023, Clearview reported $17.5 million in new business sales. "ClearView's deep adviser ...

The Aussie wealthtech firms that are 'most innovative'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... accessible to a broader range of people," DeDominicis said. Over the past year, GBST onboarded over 20 clients to its Equate product, which offers online tools and calculators to credit unions, banks, lending institutions, and other financial services ...

Super advice fee deductions compound red tape: JAWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... superannuation account and ensure that such fees are not taxable benefits for members. The regulation mandates that the financial product advice "must be personal advice that is wholly or partly about the member's interest in the fund" and replaces ...

Tranche one of advice reforms hits parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... the Corporations Act to state that a person who provides personal advice to a retail client about a life risk insurance product, general insurance product or consumer credit insurance and receives a commission in connection with the issue or sale of ...

Wholesale investor tests up for parliamentary review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... are currently five tests in place to determine if an investor is a "sophisticated" one. Two of the most popular are the product value test whereby an investible asset is $500,000-plus. The other is the individual wealth test in which an investor has ...

ASIC bans Queensland financial adviser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... Ltd, Rose recommended six self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) clients to invest their superannuation in a financial product. ASIC found that Rose engaged in conduct that was dishonest, determining Rose knew funds had been deposited for the purpose ...

Australian Retirement Trust completes Alcoa merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024
... off. In December 2022, Alcoa Super informed members it was on the hunt for potential merger partners after an independent review by KPMG found it would struggle to satisfy members' best interests by 2025. In March 2023, ART signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... sustainability of aged care, which also include introducing a fee-for-service model for Support at Home, undertaking a review in 2030 with a view to no longer accepting refundable accommodation deposits (RADs) as a form of payment from 2035, and raising ...
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