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Equipsuper members anxious about retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... communications, Geoff Brooks, said in recent years the quality of communications and ready access to professional and personal advice has been a big a driver of confidence.

Spring FG acquires robo-advice company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... cost-effective services to an emerging market of self-directed investors, it will help us deliver cost-effective hands-on personal advice on a broad scale to consumers outside of our capital cities and improve the experience of existing clients by lowering ...

ASIC developing regulatory guide for advice remediation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... communicating the specifics of the program to clients and allowing an external review process. "Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients should have robust review and remediation programs in place to protect their clients," said ASIC ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... offered the position of executive general manager of advice at HESTA as part of the fund's initiative to provide personal advice to its members. "At the beginning I joined at a startup business level. We had six people in the advice team and we had to ...

Treasury starts consultation for higher advice standards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Government, professional associations, industry and academia would work in partnership. The model would be applicable to personal advice on Tier 1 financial products, including shares, superannuation, life insurance and managed investment schemes, are ...

Advice register more detailed than expected

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... provider's name, date and place of birth, the name of the licensee that they work for, the year they started to provide personal advice, the financial products they are authorised to provide advice on, a 5-year advising history, education qualifications ...

ASIC accepts EU from Victorian adviser

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... demonstrate a reasonable basis for the advice provided, fail to comply with the record keeping obligations relating to personal advice and fail to comply with the Statement of Advice requirements. In accordance with the EU, O'Brien cannot provide financial ...

Treasury seeks consultation on adviser register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... operates under," the Treasury document says. The register will also contain information on everyone who provides personal advice to retail clients on more complex financial products. The regulation also seeks to redefine the concept of 'authorised representative' ...

Increased record keeping provisions for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... advisers will need to keep additional records proving they've complied with the best interests' duty when they give personal advice to retail clients after 23 March 2015. Information to be provided will include documentation that proves the ways in which ...

HESTA appoints general manager of member advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... general manager of member advice to coordinate its team of superannuation financial planners that provide one-on-one personal advice to members. Tracee Mulvihill started in the role on July and is general manager along with Megan Cottrell. Both manage ...