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Industry fund sees 252% increase in digital advice use

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
An industry superannuation fund has seen interactions with its online financial advice tool more than double year-on-year. Rest Online Advice interactions increased by 252% in the 2019/2020 financial year compared to the previous year. In total Rest ...

End of the road for advice qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Described as the 'end of an era', the Diploma of Financial Planning and Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning have been removed from the national regulator's register of vocational education and training. On November 3, the Australian Skills ...

Westpac profits down on AUSTRAC fine

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
Westpac has reported a "disappointing" full year result with statutory profit down a staggering 66% as a result of the ongoing pandemic and its anti-money laundering fine. Statutory profit decreased $4.94 billion to$2.29 billion while cash earnings ...

QSuper head of advice exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
The head of QSuper's advice unit has departed after the superannuation fund restructured its financial-advice offering to members. Kim Hughes, who was appointed as the $110 billion superannuation fund's chief of advice for QInvest in February 2019 ...

ASIC can use RC evidence in RI Advice case

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
RI Advice, an IOOF subsidiary, has failed in its attempt to stop ASIC using Royal Commission evidence in its ongoing case against the dealer group. ASIC's case against RI Advice and one of its former financial advisers, John Doyle, is currently playing ...

500 advisers exit during COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows that just shy of 500 financial advisers have left the industry in the last two months. From 27 February 2020 to 23 April 2020 the ASIC FAR dropped from 23,226 advisers (excluding time share ...

ASIC cancels slew of AFSLs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
ASIC has cancelled the AFSLs of three firms, including that of former advice dealer group MyPlanner. The regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of the licensee formerly known as MyPlanner Australia. The Gold Coast-based licensee ...

Bridges acquires bank advice business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
Bridges Financial Services will take over the financial planning business of a 140-year-year old bank. Following a comprehensive review, IMB Bank has announced it will sell its financial planning business to Bridges, effective May 1. The sale sees Bridges ...

APRA announces new executive roles, organisational structure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
APRA said the changes are designed to "better align" its organisational structure with the strategic objectives previously set out in its Corporate Plan for 2019 to 2023. The regulator said it will move to an industry-based supervision model, with separate ...

Industry fund fined over independent advice claims

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
A major industry superannuation fund has been forced to remove "independent" from its financial advice messaging and consequently slapped with a financial penalty issued by the corporate regulator. ASIC alleged Hostplus provided misleading claims to ...