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UniSuper establishes on-campus footprint

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... presence would help it deliver the face-to-face advice its members desire. The fund also said it employs 55 financial advisers across the nation to provide superannuation, insurance and retirement strategy advice. "In our experience, UniSuper members ...

NAB to divest MLC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... began in June 2017. The Commission recently referred to a breach report concerning 325 NAB staff, including 204 financial advisers, who were involved in incorrectly witnessing client forms. Thorburn explained that exiting wealth is more to do with "[making] ...

BlackRock restructures iShares ETFs

KANIKA SOOD, KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... investors about the administrative burdens and we expect a very positive response, particularly if you consider financial advisers who have numerous clients invested in these products. "We expect advisers will be over the moon that we now have complete ...

Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Financial Standard's latest roundtable event turned attention to how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises. SQM Research head of research Robert da Silva says behavioural insights over ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... deal with complaints about financial firms including banks, credit providers, insurance companies and brokers, financial advisers, managed investment schemes and superannuation trustees." "It will operate significantly higher monetary and compensation ...

Uncertainty abounds future of advice regulation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... Rowena Orr said the testimonies provided by the Financial Planning Association of Australia, the Association of Financial Advisers and ASIC gave rise to numerous questions around the adequacy of existing laws and policies. It also raised concerns around ...

Sixty per cent of FPA members hold degree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... on Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority proposals which aim to increase education standards for financial advisers. So far members are not pleased. De Gori added the FPA would be "advocating for the study completed by these members to be ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... whose line of questioning zeroed in on how NAB advisers witnessed client forms. 325 NAB staff, including 204 financial advisers, were involved in witnessing client forms incorrectly. NAB adviser Bradley Meyn witnessed non-lapsing binding death benefit ...

Advisers react to Royal Commission revelations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Financial advisers are struggling to comprehend the level of misconduct revealed by the past fortnight's Royal Commission hearings. Will the non-aligned advice space be strengthened by the findings? Or will the vertically integrated model withstand ...

ROYAL COMMISSION: Our top stories

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... financial advice from Henderson in late- 2016, having come across Henderson's name as the 2016 Association of Financial Advisers' Practice of the Year winner. She said she was also motivated by the fact that she had regularly seen Henderson on television ...