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Robo-adviser partners with private wealth firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... Robo-adviser Clover has partnered with a Melbourne-based private wealth firm to provide its proprietary online financial advice and wealth management technology. The white-label structure will see Collins House offer a digital advice service to clients ...

Royal Commission singles out 325 NAB staff cutting corners

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... understand the serious of these actions. Hagger said this concerned him very much, adding that "in relation to the financial advice area, there was a failure of discipline." Ultimately, though, Hagger said the correct preparation of witness forms was ...

Advisory group recruits new head of SMSF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
An accounting and wealth advisory group is welcoming a new head of SMSF to establish a dedicated financial advice service. Omniwealth has appointed Stephen Hogg to lead a self-managed superannuation fund advice offering and implement a real-time reporting ...

Unions lobby super sector to cut big bank, AMP ties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... corrupt and unethical behaviours," such as that acknowledged by the banks and AMP throughout the Commission's financial advice inquiry. However, in addition to these commercial arrangements, industry funds are also some of the biggest investors in the ...

Royal Commission can only mean more red tape: Poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
Financial Standard readers predict the financial services Royal Commission will turn the financial advice industry in a new direction, and with more red tape. The publication's weekly spot poll shows more than half (55%) of the respondents strongly ...

Westpac obscured bad adviser reference check

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... incident included Smith advising 20 of his clients to invest in the same NAB hybrid securities on the same day. BT Financial Advice general manager Michael Wright told Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that recommending clients invest in the securities ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Day 4 and 5)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... Commission disbands for the week, Financial Standard summarises all the evidence heard on day four and five of the financial advice industry's turn before Commissioner Kenneth Hayne. Executives from Westpac, CBA and AMP have now made an appearance. Here's ...

ROYAL COMMISSION: Top stories

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... Here's a recap of the most read stories to come out of the first week of the Royal Commission's inquiry into financial advice. AMP admits to serious misconduct in RC submissions AMP acknowledged hundreds of instances of misconduct in relation to the ...

RC questions adviser sales tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The financial advice industry is grappling with a sales culture mentality and is only at the "cusp" of being a "true profession," this morning's session of the Royal Commission has revealed. On his second day in the hot-seat, BT Financial Advice general ...

Royal Commission to boost ETFs: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... increasing number of financial advisers have been using ETFs to diversify client portfolios since the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, according to VanEck managing director and APAC head Arian Neiron. "We anticipate a high degree of financial ...