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AFCA ombudsman addresses adviser concerns

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... step at the time the advice is provided that is in the best interests of the client". From 1 January 2020 onwards, FASEA's code of ethics standard will be applied in addition to the previous requirements. Additionally, Singh said the issue of missing ...

Perth adviser to face court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... accounts, according to WAPF. WAPF has charged the adviser with eight counts of stealing contrary to s378 of the WA Criminal Code 1913 (WA). He is due to appear at the Joondalup Magistrates Court on September 9. Separate to the incident, Platinum Perpetual ...

Government extends FASEA deadlines

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... exam, hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent qualifications, undertake continuing professional development, comply with a code of ethics and be a member of an ASIC-approved code monitoring scheme. "While making these changes to raise education standards ...

REP 515 divides advice community

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... Royal Commission's recommendations. Those changes included ending grandfathered commissions and implementing the FASEA code of ethics. Anderson was critical of the inability of regulators to consider unintended consequences. He pointed to the Royal ...

Peak bodies respond to government roadmap

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... implementing recommendations" it said, since the final report was handed down six months ago. All six changes to the Banking Code in the recommendations are underway, with five of the changes having provisions drafted and submitted to the regulators ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... protectionist trade measures, and expectations of tariffs against China" as influencing factors for the currency's depreciation (code for "take that, Trump"). China could sugarcoat its latest move all it wants, but at the end of the day, it is what ...

Sam Henderson cops ASIC ban

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... $50,000 by the Financial Planning Association of Australia last year which found him guilty of breaching its professional code of conduct nine times. ASIC found Henderson's clients either lost or were at risk of losing money as he had failed to act ...

OnePath receives first Life Code sanction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
OnePath is the subject of the first sanction to be issued by the Life Code Compliance Committee for failure to stop selling a non-compliant product and remediate customers by an agreed deadline. In July 2017 OnePath self-reported its ANZ Loan Protection ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... 100 largest UK companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. It started trading on the ASX this morning with the ticker code F100. The passive ETF will track the market cap weighted FTSE 100 Index. The management costs are 0.45%. The fund's assets ...

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... having it in place by 1 July this year." The moratorium will be regularly reviewed and will be included in the Life Insurance Code of Practice which is currently under review. The new moratorium will be in place at least until the end of June 2024 and ...