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Global firm mulls Aussie advice market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... Willis built the financial planning division from scratch and it operates under AMP Group Australian financial services licence (AFSL). "We have one adviser working for us because this is still part of a start-up within Willis and if we demonstrate that ...

ASIC bans broker for deceptive conduct

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... to more than $40 million in losses, and put one at risk of breaching the terms of their Australian financial services licence (AFSL). Barr is the 34th person to be banned from providing financial services this year, and the 18th to receive a permanent ...

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... doing more in their world than what they are prepared to do." The NTAA recently set up an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) under the name of NTAA Advice that its members can use to provide SMSF advice.

Advice firms start to launch in post-FoFA regime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... to launch Bombora Advice, a boutique risk advice business that will operate under its own Australian financial services licence (AFSL). "It is a far more rigorous process now that when I first launched Apogee in the mid-90s," Handley told Financial Standard. ...

ASIC cancels Perth stockbroker's licence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
Perth securities dealer Stellar Securities Pty Ltd has lost its Australian financial services licence (AFSL) over compliance issues. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found Stellar Securities had failed to comply with conditions ...

Count goes "social" in hunt for accountancy business

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... social media platforms as part of its strategy to attract accountancy firms to work under its Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). Count chief executive David Lane told Financial Standard that it is using Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to build ...

ASIC slaps permanent ban on insurance claim manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... manager of ATC Insurance Solutions (ATC), a Melbourne-based insurance agent and holder of an Australian financial services licence. ASIC's investigation found that Loy fabricated and submitted 38 false claims predominantly for income protection claims ...

Lifewise joins independent dealer group

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... Synchron when he realised that "despite Lifewise now having the scale to apply for its own Australian financial services licence (AFSL), joining Synchron made more sense." "Having our own AFSL would have meant a large chunk of our time would have been ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... time licensee or a full time adviser?," adviser Troy Edmondson asked after handing back his Australian financial services licence (AFSL) and joining TAL-backed dealer group Affinia. Edmondson was the winner of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

AFA Adviser of the Year hands back AFSL, joins Affinia

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Adviser Troy Edmondson has handed back his Australian financial services licence (AFSL) and is going to joining Affinia because compliance obligations were taking him away from his clients, he said. Edmondson has handed back the licence of Queensland-based ...