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DASH lands venture capital investment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... This will enable advisers to deliver advice seamlessly from online fact finding through to modelling and the Statement of Advice (SoA), Whelan said. DASH is specifically targeting all the key friction points in the financial planning workflow. The first ...

ASIC bans Queensland adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... said. Further, Allen didn't appropriately scope super advice to include insurance, ASIC added. Allen's Statement of Advice documents provided to clients also contained product comparison tables that were false or misleading. He understated the ...

QAR does not "trash" FoFA: Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... provide advice documentation as another solution that should be fast tracked. "The requirement to prepare a Statement of Advice (SoA) was a Financial Services Reform Act initiative dating back to 2001. This was not a FoFA reform, so there can be no FoFA ...

Put controls in place for super funds: Associations

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... their members. "There will be no safe harbour steps to follow, and they will not have to give the member a statement of advice (SoA). That will improve the accessibility and affordability of financial advice," she said. But Anderson isn't convinced ...

Treasury releases Quality of Advice Review final report

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... interaction or personalised communication by a provider of advice. Meanwhile, Levy has maintained her view that the Statement of Advice should be removed, to be replaced with a requirement for providers of personal retail advice to maintain complete ...

We do get it: Levy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... acceptable", as well as concerns around financial advisers competing with non-relevant providers and what the Statement of Advice (SoA) might look like going forward.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Graham

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... before we do anything from that perspective." Graham said that regulators should consider ditching formal Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements, but he doesn't agree with paring back the use of SOAs. "SOAs generally are a disaster. They're bureaucratic ...

Scientiam, DASH launch easy fund exit service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
... contemporary solutions. The service, available via a subscription with Scientiam, leverages DASH's digital Statement of Advice (SoA) tool. It is exclusively offered through financial advisers and requires users to submit an adviser code when registering. ...

Burgeoning challenges of the advice industry: Padua

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2022
... produce advice documents," she remarked. According to Financial Services Council (FSC) survey data, the average Statement of Advice (SOA) takes around 20 hours to produce. But, broken down further, the average Record of Advice (ROA) takes approximately ...

Charges laid against former BBY head of operations

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2022
... former BBY adviser, who it said traded with client's money without their authorisation and outside of the Statement of Advice.