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Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... stakeholders on efficient and effective ways to lift professional, ethical and educational standards across the financial advice industry," the statement added. "As we progress relevant improvements, in particular to educational standards, those improvements ...

Brisbane adviser pleads guilty to $9 million fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... Patersons terminated Tu's employment in September 2013. ASIC also announced that a company director that provided financial advice without a licence has been forced by the regulator to undertake a course with the Australian Institute of Company Directors ...

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... providers conduct exams in accordance with the CASA framework." Medcraft noted that "only one in five Australians get financial advice. And, with recent high-profile cases of advisers mis-selling financial products, this is sadly no surprise." In September ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... disrupted by new digital strategies." He said that new systems such as peer-to-peer lending, crowd funding or robo-financial advice represent an opportunity of adding value in a context where customer satisfaction is at the centre of business models. ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall noted that the move "will ensure ...

Independent dealer groups eye Genesys practices

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... expected to be more difficult because of the recent disallowance to the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. As a consequence of the disallowance, the regulation that fixed the grandfathering issue is not in place ...

FPA shines light on "catch-all" dilemma

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
The "catch-all" phrase within the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) best interests' duty provision is back, with advisers wondering what it means for their businesses. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and conduct Dante ...

QSuper appoints Decimal as advice platform provider

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... for its scaled advice operations. Decimal's platform will provide QSuper members with the option for limited financial advice with real time process and compliance management. Decimal executive chairman Michael Sertorio said the company is delighted ...

AdviserLogic appoints NSW sales manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... for driving the growth of the business in NSW and increasing the breadth of distribution via relationships with financial advice practices and licensees. Page was at AAP for over eight years and also spent a year as a general manager of the COIN software. ...

Grandfathering set to become next advice battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... with government and opposition to address the sudden disallowance of the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "We are quite confident that we'll get the grandfathering provisions sorted out," Financial Planning Association ...