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Experience pathway could create two adviser tiers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
... level, for example, adviser qualifications or lack thereof, and experience, could be contained in the Financial Services Guide and marketing materials," Macdonald said. "Consumers are also likely confused about the level of education and training required ...

Focus on providing 'good advice': QAR draft proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... Statement of Advice or Record of Advice. Advisers can either continue to give their clients a copy of their Financial Services Guide or make information available to their clients on their website about their remuneration and other benefits they receive ...

ASIC consults on refreshing PDSs, FSGs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
ASIC has opened consultations on remaking the relief contained in product disclosure statements and financial services guides. Under Consultation Paper 358 Remaking ASIC relief on PDSs, superannuation dashboards and FSGs, the corporate regulator is ...

AFA responds to Quality of Advice Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... clients, the AFA said, questioning the value of Financial Services Guides as a case in point. "[The] Financial Services Guide (FSG), which may have been more important in the past, given conflicted remuneration and a market typified by significant vertical ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... funds and 10 largest retail funds. The documents looked at were the funds' product disclosure statements, financial services guide, annual reports, and company policies. The metrics used to derive readability scores were grade level, average sentence ...

iFactFind launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... advisers a comprehensive, interactive digital fact-find. For prospective clients, iFactFind has a built-in financial services guide delivery and confirmation functionality. The entire process, which includes goal setting and a risk tolerance questionnaire ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... stocks) and Maqro Capital, a stockmarket research and advisory firm. According to the platform's financial services guide, Superhero Markets (platform operator) as well as Superhero Nominees (custodian) is authorised by Sanlam to deal in financial ...

Sam Henderson pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... disclosure document available to a person knowing it to be defective. ASIC claims Henderson gave two clients a Financial Services Guide claiming that he held a Master of Commerce when he did not. Each count of making a defective disclosure document available ...

Sam Henderson in court over phantom degree

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... Henderson breached s952D(2)(a)(ii) of the Corporations Act in 2014 and 2016 by giving at least two clients a Financial Services Guide, containing the false representation that he held a Master of Commerce (Financial Planning)," ASIC said. The charges ...

Sam Henderson cops ASIC ban

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
The corporate regulator has banned high-profile financial adviser Sam Henderson, whose inappropriate financial advice was laid bare the in Royal Commission public hearings last year. The Sydney-based adviser was banned from providing financial services ...