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Australian recovery has been outstanding: La Trobe Financial

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
Attendees of the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney have been reassured that Australia's economic recovery has not just been good - it's been very good. That's according to La Trobe Financial chief investment officer and ...

Centrepoint Alliance posts $1.6m NPAT

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
Centrepoint Alliance reported $1.6 million in NPAT for the December half, as its total adviser numbers dropped slightly to 308. Gross revenue for the period was $70.6 million up 15% to the six-months ending June. Centrepoint's revenue comes from a mix ...

PPS Mutual offers new IP solution

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
PPS Mutual has launched an income protection underwriting offering for newly qualified professionals starting out in their career. The Professional Choice offer will enable newly qualified professionals to increase their monthly income protection benefit ...

Two ASI executives out the door

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has lost two of its executives with their roles being absorbed by the other team members. Former institutional director Andrew Heyden spent just shy of 15 years at ASI before departing the firm at the end of 2020. ...

FPA calls for levy overhaul

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has recommended a review of the financial advice industry levy ahead of this year's federal budget. The FPA is calling on the government to review the ASIC industry levy and move away from annual ...

High Court dismisses Westpac appeal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
The High Court has affirmed the Federal Court's 2019 decision that two Westpac subsidiaries provided unlicensed personal financial advice. In a decision handed down today, the High Court of Australia dismissed Westpac's appeal, determining the ...

NAB swallows up neobank

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
Just weeks after the downfall of Xinja, Neobank 86 400 has announced plans to join the NAB Group in a $220m acquisition. Founded by Cuscal, a Sydney-based IT service management company, and led by chief executive Robert Bell, 86 400 launched the mobile-led ...

Xinja returns deposits

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
The neobank has become the first Australian bank to return its customer deposits after it withdrew its banking products and announced the return of its authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) licence. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

ASIC bans former IOOF, MLC adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
Jim Pavlidis has been banned from providing financial services for three years, after it was revealed he was not adequately trained. ASIC said that a review of the advice given by Pavlidis between 2004 and 2018 found that he failed to provide financial ...

AMP adviser numbers shrivel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
The number of financial advisers licensed by AMP dropped dramatically in 2020, with the institution no longer the largest AFSL in the country by number of advisers. The largest AFSL is now the SMSF Adviser Network which had 839 advisers as at 31 December ...