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BNP Paribas makes key Asia Pacific appointments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
BNP Paribas Securities Services has made two key appointments in the Asia Pacific wing of its custody business. StA(C)phanie Marelle is taking over as head of Hong Kong from Bruno Campenon, who has moved to New York to take on the role of head of clearing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open higher following a mixed session on Wall Street and large losses locally on Monday. The September share price index futures contract is up three points at 5,476. US stocks have finished mixed as the tech-rich ...

ASIC: Beware fake forex website

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... Global are registered Australian companies, nor are their services regulated as a financial services business under Australian law. "The website, www.fifx.com appears to be operated overseas and refers to an Australian company that is in no way associated ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... said: "We need to move with the times and incorporate solid ethics and conduct training in line with other industries such as law and medicine. "Financial planners are providing a service that is just as important - the requirements of the industry should ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... connection between financial advice and financial product distribution becomes further entrenched with each development in the law and in the regulation of financial planners generally." As a result of this FPA has suggested that the terms 'financial ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... financial advice. The inquiry will analyse mechanisms that would ensure that financial planners found to have breached any law or professional standards in their employment are transparent, for both the sector and consumers. Financial services providers ...

SG frozen till 2021, industry 'dismayed'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The Senate has passed legislation that will freeze the superannuation guarantee at 9.5% until 2021, and abolish the Low Income Superannuation Contribution in 2017. The laws, which were part of an extensive package of reforms contained in the Minerals ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... associations and academics. The process would culminate in enshrining the terms 'financial adviser' and 'financial planner' in law. The FSC asked that the board establish advice competency models applicable for advisers providing personal advice, general ...

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
The House of Representatives has voted in favour of the government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The members of Parliament voted following a long debate where the Coalition outlined its position in favour of the ...

Higher education will not fix advice industry problems: Accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
Mandatory education requirements for financial planners will not eliminate the problems that the financial advice sector has experienced in recent years, the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) said in a submission to the Financial ...