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FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... industry can respond to the issues identified to ensure Australians are adequately insured and receive world class financial advice. An interim report was issued in December 2014, based on extensive consultation and submissions from interested parties. ...

PROFILE: Findex chief executive Spiro Paule

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
You do not go from running a team of six to 3,000 and become Australia's largest financial advice company in the space of 15 years without a solid business strategy. Yet for Findex chief executive Spiro Paule, a self-confessed entrepreneur, the strategy ...

REI Super launches live video advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... fund experienced a 73% increase in the number of pieces of advice it issued to members and traffic to the fund's financial advice website pages increased by 90% during the same period. REI Super advice fees are scaled and depend on the level of advice ...

NAB to take "leading role" in advice remediation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
During the Senate Economics References Committee's Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry, NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn said the bank was prepared to take a "leading role" in addressing the compensation gap for victims of poor financial advice. ...

CBA advisers ran from ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... when the regulator began its investigation. Speaking at the Senate Economics References Committee's Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry, he said that "People who know they have done wrong, once the investigation starts, run away and you don't get a ...

Sacked Macquarie advisers still in the industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... executive Nicholas Moore said. Speaking at a Senate Economics Committee public hearing within the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry, Moore said: "We don't keep track of people [who leave MPW], but anecdotally I know that some of them are still in ...

Industry should help fund ASIC: ANZ

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... deputy chief executive officer Graham Hodges told a Senate Economics Committee hearing within the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry that "the industry must take responsibility for its actions." The regulator "will never have sufficient resources to ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... training and a registration exam following the training period. The PJC also recommended establishing an independent financial advice education council to formalise professional standards and mandating that all financial advisers belong to a professional ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Macquarie Group, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank are due to appear before Senate committee inquiry into financial advice services. Rio Tinto and Oil Search are slated to post first quarter production reports. Leighton Holdings holds its ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... to attend at a future date. "It's time we shine some sunlight onto what has been happening in the provision of financial advice," Dastyari told Financial Standard, adding: "greater public accountability will result in better public policy outcomes." ...