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ASIC shuts down unlicensed investment scheme

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
An unlicensed financial services firm that allegedly misappropriated $5.7 million from self-managed superannuation fund members is in the process of being shut down by ASIC. ASIC obtained interim orders and injunctions from the Queensland Federal Court ...

Commonwealth Bank to add crypto services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... and growing demand for digital currencies from customers creates both challenges and opportunities for the financial services sector, which has seen a significant number of new players and business models innovating in this area," CBA chief executive ...

Governments must act on net zero: Morningstar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... under the banner of the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative. The survey comes after FINSIA came out urging the financial services industry to increase climate science skills to prevent negative risks on the economy.

Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... the COP26 summit continues, an industry body is calling on the need for greater climate science skills in the financial services industry. FINSIA believes without climate science skills, financial services organisations are at a great risk of negatively ...

HNW advice firm joins William Buck

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
A high-net-worth financial advice firm formerly licensed by Hillross Financial Services has merged with William Buck. Brisbane-based Hillross Montefiore & Co. operated under the banner of William Buck as of yesterday. Director and private client adviser ...

Adviser exits continue, industry recruits 50

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... Financial Planning (411) and Consultum Financial Advisers (375). Morgans (179), Commonwealth FP (179) and Aware Financial Services (162) are the largest licensees when it comes to providing risk advice. As for the largest superannuation advice businesses ...

ATO names second commissioner

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... Prior to joining the ATO, Fish was a tax partner at Clayton Utz for more than nine years, with a focus on the financial services industry and providing finance and investment transaction advice. Commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan said Fish is a strong ...

Midwinter hires from Integrity Life

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... already done and help take our advice solutions to the next level." "Technology advances way quicker than the financial services industry can; my role will be to look for opportunities to harness new technologies in a way that helps advisers better engage ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... industry funds and 10 largest retail funds. The documents looked at were the funds' product disclosure statements, financial services guide, annual reports, and company policies. The metrics used to derive readability scores were grade level, average ...

New FSC board appointment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
Bell Asset Management chief executive Nick Fels has joined the board of the Financial Services Council (FSC). Fels has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services industry. He has been chief executive of Bell Asset Management since 2017 ...