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Trustees, advisers have 'insufficient focus' on performance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... research house ratings when choosing options for investment menus, approving options for use by advisers or providing personal advice." In specifically looking at super trustees, ASIC found some due diligence policies lacked detail and were poorly drafted ...

Centrepoint Alliance launches long-awaited IconiQ platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
Centrepoint Alliance has launched the IconiQ investment platform, developed in partnership with FNZ, to provide advisers with both an Investment and Super Wrap solution. Centrepoint said the Investment Wrap is a comprehensive investment account designed ...

Keystone Asset Management to be wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... Superannuation. "The investigation to date suggests that potential investors were called by lead generators and referred to personal financial advice providers who advised investors to roll their superannuation assets into a retail choice superannuation ...

The sensitive conversations advisers shy away from

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... Australia (FAAA) Congress, advisers' insights into clients' financial lives and how this intersects with their personal lives and vice versa are areas they should not be fearful of discussing. Divorce, financial coercion, and family planning ...

TelstraSuper and Equip Super merger to go ahead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
TelstraSuper and Equip Super have confirmed their merger, with the boards signing a binding Heads of Agreement to proceed with a successor fund transfer and appointing key leadership roles. The agreement follows the announcement in September that the ...

AMP completes advice licensees sale

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... first quarter of 2025. Overall, 103 employees from AMP joined the fold. Entireti also houses Fortnum Private Wealth and Personal Financial Services (PFS). It now has about 1300 financial advisers, 400 businesses, and some 180 employees. From today, AMP ...

FAAA celebrates adviser excellence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... winning factor. She said Capital Partners' success came from its focus on aligning clients' wealth with their personal values and life goals, and its comprehensive and sustained commitment to both business and succession planning. Meantime, Mazi ...

Illegal investment scheme operator to pay $1.25m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... role as the founder, designer and operator of the unregistered schemes, including advising individuals to invest their personal savings by setting up a SMSF to invest in a scheme".

Former Western AM investment chief charged for 'cherry-picking'

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged former Western Asset co-chief investment officer Ken Leech for "engaging in a multi-year scheme to allocate favourable trades to certain portfolios." The SEC alleges Leech engaged in the conduct ...

Adviser suspended over wrongful use of ROAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... said. The FSCP said the further advice exemption from giving an SOA did not apply to two of the three clients as their personal circumstances had changed significantly in the relevant period. All three clients had the same investment risk profile and ...