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Former BBY adviser cops 10-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... clients' accounts without authorisation. Belardo, who provided financial advice to retail clients in relation to financial products that included securities and derivatives, also traded in client accounts that was inconsistent or contrary to, the investment ...

ASIC outlines industry funding costs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... engaged in OTC trading activities. Financial advice licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on financial products will pay a minimum levy of $1500, which is graduated based on the number of advisers representing said licensee. ASIC said ...

Former Financial Wisdom adviser banned

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... clients' relevant objectives, financial situation and needs; and Failed to conduct a reasonable investigation into financial products that might achieve the objectives of the clients. At the time Houghton was also a cross-endorsed authorised representative ...

Media powerhouse turns financial product provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... with Hong Kong-based Value Partners Group to explore the potential for a partnership to develop Forbes-branded financial products which may in turn be offered to investors. In a joint statement, the groups said Value Partners would act as the investment ...

ASIC targets retirement products and services

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... address financial issues of older Australians. In its 2017-18 Corporate Plan, ASIC highlighted it will examine financial products and services provided to older Australians - especially how these products affect the ability to make financial decisions. ...

ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... particular attention to instances where AFS licensees claim to provide general advice to retail clients when selling financial products (and therefore do not need to comply with the best interests duty and related obligations), but are actually providing ...

FOFA breach sees former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
... clients as he had not identified the subject matter of the advice; conducted a sound investigation into the financial products that might achieve the objectives and the needs of the client that would reasonably be considered as relevant to advice on ...

ASIC bans ex-AMP adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... permanently on the grounds he engaged in dishonest conduct relating to client records and applications for financial products, and did not leave clients in a better position after receiving his advice. ASIC noted that Fong's conduct is "illustrative ...

Financial Standard to expand into Marketing and Communications educational content

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... continue to be disrupted by technology bringing in new competition and changing the way people find and choose financial products and services. To thrive in that environment, marketing and communications professionals will play an even more critical ...

Advisers must prepare for the next generation of clients

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Financial advisers who take the initiative to understand new financial products favoured by millennials will be the first in line to secure the next generation of clients, according to former XY adviser and author Clayton Daniel. Speaking to Financial ...