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Shadforth appoints Queensland head

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
... worked at BT Financial Group and Perpetual in distribution roles. Shadforth's Queensland staff includes 15 private wealth advisers and 40 staff in total. The advice group has about $14.5 billion in funds under advice across Australia working for over ...

Former Millennium3 representatives cop ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
... they breached their duties while working as director and officer respectively. Neither Parry nor Price were financial advisers. Parry was sole director and secretary of NCFS between 4 September 2008 and 15 October 2020. Price has been an officer and ...

Financial Masterplan advisers banned

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
ASIC banned two Gold Coast-based financial advisers for five years after they were found to have placed clients in inappropriate superannuation and insurance products. The corporate regulator believes Trent Allan and Fabrizio Urrutia were not adequately ...

AMP hires in support of advisers, brokers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
... governance. The appointment is aimed at bolstering distribution and governance support for AMP's brokers and financial advisers. Herbert was previously head of lending distribution at MyState Bank, and prior to that, chief executive at The Rock Building ...

RI Advice failed oversight obligations: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... interests and put the clients' interests ahead of his own. RI Advice did not have any adequate processes to identify when advisers were avoiding advice quality checks or recommending non-approved financial products, resulting in "serious flaws" which ...

Bitcoin fund manager hires distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... exceptionally valuable to Monochrome." "We have been developing an information series to assist professional investors and advisers be better prepared to respond to customer enquiries in and around digital assets and we look forward to progressively ...

Super, ASIC beneficiaries of advice challenges: Hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... that argument is that it suggests there is a conflict-free alternative, and a fee-for-service arrangement which most advisers are now operating under has the same conflicts as well," Jacobsen responded. "There's an incentive for an accountant on ...

New AIA advice unit names chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... business has named a chief executive to lead its efforts, as the life insurer brings some Commonwealth Financial Planning advisers into the fold. The life insurer has set up AIA Financial Wellbeing, led by Pina Sciarrone, who is the chief executive and ...

Channel Capital appoints distribution director

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... Queensland-based distribution director, hiring from GSFM. Sam Mirls will be responsible for managing and building relationships with advisers, family office and wholesale clients across Queensland. Mirls joins from another multi-boutique GSFM where he ...

Broken advice industry shuns everyday Aussies: AFA

KARREN VERGARA, ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... Australians further cements the position of the rich and powerful, an inquiry heard this morning. The Association of Financial Advisers president Michael Nowak said the broken state of the financial advice industry has resulted in two damaging consequences ...