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Capstone/BGL to deliver online AFSL authorisation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... Planning and SMSF administration services provider BGL are partnering to deliver online Australian Financial Services Licence authorisation to accountants. The partnership will enable BGL clients to apply online for an AFSL via a web portal, which will ...

Wealth Enhancers departs Synchron, goes independent

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Generation Y-targeted advice firm Wealth Enhancers has set up its own Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). Wealth Enhancers was previously aligned with Synchron. According to Wealth Enhancers financial coach Rebecca Boles, the decision to go ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
Advisers should master digital communications channels before they lose business to other industries, according to Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking in Sydney at the launch of the AFA/Zurich/Beddoes Institute white ...

ASIC bans former risk adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... since advised ASIC it has ceased trading and is working with the regulator to cancel its Australian Financial Services Licence. As reported in Financial Standard in March, Macquarie confirmed it would be closing the dealer group and five associated advisers ...

ASIC seeks more bans in SMSF advice crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... establishing SMSFs and acquiring (and disposing of) superannuation assets without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence. ASIC's investigation began in 2011 and found that Royale Capital and ActiveSuper were using investors' money to purchase ...

Barrett in buyout mode, acquires CBA firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... caliber firm," Barrett said. EWM advisers have operated under CBA-owned Financial Wisdom Australian financial services licence (AFSL) since June 2013. Commenting on the ownership change, Cook said: "This transaction heralds a new era of growth for Eureka ...

Report confirms failed CBA compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... appointed by ASIC in November 2014 to examine CFPL and FWL compliance under the limited Australian financial services licence (AFSL) conditions that the regulator imposed on the licensees.

Fintechs issued AFSL warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... technology (fintech) businesses may be unwittingly providing financial services without an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) or Australian Credit Licence (ACL), putting themselves in breach of the law and opening themselves up for investigation ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... out how to provide advice," Blakey says. One of the first steps was setting up HESTA's own Australian financial services licence (AFSL). Then Blakey and the team focused on coming up with the right model: "Our members' average superannuation account ...

Unlicensed adviser faces court

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... Brisbane. Pousa has been charged with facilitating IIC practicing financial services without an Australian Financial Services Licence between September 11 and June 2012. ASIC has since frozen over $3 million held by IIC during the course of its investigation. ...