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Jo-Anne Bloch to chair CSLR

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
Former Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch has been appointed by the Albanese government to lead its Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CLSR). The scheme, which officially kicks off on April 2, aims to give ...

Count drops $4.1m on SMSF services company

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
... company that provides offshore SMSF services out of India, with an aim to expand its services segment to support financial planning and accounting businesses. Count will acquire 51% of the business based on an enterprise valuation of $4.1 million. Count ...

Sequoia strikes deal to acquire Clique Paraplanning

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... shares in FNX and established a strategic partnership with Finexia to co-market each other's services to the financial planning and accountancy marketplace. Yield Report provides an online news portal focusing solely on fixed income and yield securit ...

Scarcity buys stake in asset manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... money from family offices and high-net-worth investors and its owners. "Evidentia's deep domain expertise in financial planning as well as investment management ideally positions it to take advantage of this ongoing trend, through providing the hard ...

Dirigere Advisory rebrands to Intelligent Planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... Synchron for four years. Intelligent Planning managing director Phil Osborne said: "We saw a widening gap in the financial planning landscape between what today's professional financial adviser community really wants from a licensee and what the market ...

Treasury promises flexibility to adviser qualifications

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... financial advisers are required to complete are extremely prescriptive. It involves a specifically approved AQ7 Financial Planning major in an undergraduate degree or the completion of a specialised post-graduate diploma or master's degree in financial ...

Adviser numbers stable at 15,650

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024
... year - a net loss of 214 advisers. Using ASIC Financial Adviser Register data, the analysis found that AMP Financial Planning still has the highest number of representatives with 477. It had 546 at the start of 2023, a 13% drop in adviser numbers. Morgans ...

2024 to be a watershed year: FAAA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
... Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR)," Abood said. "Another key area of focus will be the use of technology in financial planning, where substantial opportunities exist to streamline operations and reduce cost." She said this includes the role of ...

What you read in 2023

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... at the time. 10) AMP loses BOLR changes class action (July 5) The Federal Court ruled in favour of the AMP Financial Planning advisers who saw the buy-back value of their businesses slashed by controversial changes to AMP's Buyer of Last Resort provisions ...

Former AMP adviser banned by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
ASIC has prohibited former AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP) adviser Darron Mink from providing financial services or engaging in credit activities for five years. Mink, who was also the sole director of Newcastle's Pinnacle Financial and Investment ...