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Intra-fund advice conflicted: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... thinking that moving to MySuper would be "bad." Hodge brought to light the case of one Financial Wisdom authorised representative. Between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2017, about 1380 of the advisers' clients elected to remain or gave an investment direction ...

Last chance to participate in the annual FS Managed Accounts Survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
Financial Standard is calling on financial advisers to have their say in an annual managed accounts survey, after research shows a spike in the number of products and services launched since last year. Listed wealth management groups HUB24, Netwealth ...

CPA Australia scraps advice offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
CPA Australia is dropping its financial advice offering after a review determined it was not financially viable. CPA Australia Advice notified its existing authorised representatives and staff on Friday of its intention to shutter, saying it will assist ...

Pressure mounts on regional advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... shows there are currently 88 sole practitioner advice practices in regional Australia operated by an authorised representative of AMP Financial Planning. A further 63 single adviser practices sit outside of capital cities across the Charter and Hillross ...

ASIC bans Queensland adviser, suspends licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... sample of its 2017 research project into SMSF advice for retail clients. At the time, Cribb worked was an authorised representative of Axis. He was the sole keyperson and responsible manager of Mode since 20 July 2017. Following the initial identification ...

Advisers demand self-licensing regime: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
A majority of financial advisers would welcome an overhaul of the AFS licensing regime, a recent survey shows. The majority (78%) of financial advisers polled in Financial Standard's sister publication FS Advice would prefer to be self-licensed, similar ...

Dover advisers turn orphans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
While there are Dover financial advisers that have managed to transition elsewhere in recent weeks, latest ASIC data shows hundreds of advisers will be without a licensee when the disgraced AFSL shutters today. Rainmaker analysis of ASIC's Financial ...

Simple Fund 360 picks up AdviserLogic

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
AdviserLogic clients are now available to use Simple Fund 360, after the software provider integrated with the BGL platform. The SMSF software provider added in a release that AdviserLogic used the free BGL application programming interface (API) to ...

Centrepoint bumps up advice litigation provision

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
Centrepoint Alliance flagged an increase in advice litigated claims is on the horizon for its subsidiary Professional Investment Services (PIS), quantifying the amount to be $2 million more than anticipated. Following its reassessment of PIS' legacy ...

Dover AFSL cancelled, McMaster exits industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
ASIC has accepted a Court Enforceable Undertaking from Dover Financial Advisers and Terry McMaster will leave the financial services industry. ASIC confirmed the action resulted from an ASIC investigation which commenced in 2017, with a particular focus ...