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FASEA adds exam sittings, approved subjects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... 9-14 and November 4-9 next year. Locations differ for each sitting and are available on FASEA's website. Alternatively, advisers can elect to sit the exam online remotely at their preferred time during the exam sitting window, FASEA said. "The 2021 exam ...

Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Financial advisers tend to give female clients poorer advice and recommend riskier assets compared to male clients, a new study shows. Women are significantly more likely to receive undiversified financial advice than men, researchers from the Hong ...

ASIC can use RC evidence in RI Advice case

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... evidence in its ongoing case against the dealer group. ASIC's case against RI Advice and one of its former financial advisers, John Doyle, is currently playing out in the Federal Court. The regulator has alleged Doyle failed to act in the best interests ...

New research head at Centrepoint Alliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... after Miriam Herold left in mid-May to head investments in AMP's superannuation trustee office. Centrepoint added net 17 advisers last financial year, taking its total to 317 licensed advisers. It reported $131 million in FY20 revenue (up 11%). The average ...

New sales lead at ethical manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
An ethical fund manager with a new range of separately managed accounts has appointed a sales lead. Ethical Funds Management has appointed Peter Evans to the role of business development manager for their range of SMAs. Evans comes from BNP Paribas ...

AMP deed of release bars advisers joining class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
AMP is allegedly handing departing financial advisers a contract with a clause in it that prohibits them from joining the current open class action. The Advisers Association chief executive Neil Macdonald said he became aware of a new clause in AMP's ...

Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... filed by Piper Alderman in the Federal Court of Australia relate to commissions paid to Count Financial and its financial advisers from 21 August 2014 to 21 August 2020. The class action has come off the back of Count Financial's misconduct revealed ...

LIC seeks conversion to ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... converting to an unlisted fund.Recent changes to legislation also stopped LICs and LITs from paying commissions to financial advisers. Zenith Investment Partners head of listed strategies and real assets Dugald Higgins says MA1's move may not necessarily ...

Technology can ease adviser red tape: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... financial advice can serve the vast majority of Australians if technology or artificial intelligence works alongside advisers. It is perhaps selecting products for clients that has somewhat become a sticking point and where technology can play a pivotal ...

IOOF names licensee chiefs, acquires platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... led by Millennium3 chief executive Helen Blackford. The second group will comprise RI Advice and Consultum Financial Advisers and will be led by RI Advice chief executive Peter Ornsby. Ornsby will also lead Financial Services Partners until it is closed ...