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Former adviser sentenced over theft

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
Former Sydney financial adviser Keith Flowers has been sentenced to three years and two months imprisonment, t o be served by way of intensive correction order, and fined $9500. The matter, prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions ...

Barred adviser breaches ASIC order

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
Former Queensland financial adviser Lawrence Teledo has been convicted for breaching an ASIC banning order. Toledo has been fined $1500 after pleading guilty to three charges of breaching an ASIC banning order. In 2017, Toledo was banned from providing ...

Advice firms struggle to make most of socials

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
... attendees found only about a third of them are actually gaining business from that presence; 51% haven't received a single referral in the last year. That said, only 14% of advisers said they're using social media to build referral partnerships. Growing ...

ASIC unveils details of FSCP operations

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021
... specified training, counselling or supervision and report certain matters to ASIC. It may also suspend or cancel a financial adviser's registration, issue infringement notices in certain circumstances, recommend that ASIC commence civil penalty proceedings ...

Former adviser hit with criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
After breaching his ASIC banning order, a former financial adviser is facing criminal charges. Lawrence Toledo, who is a former representative of Sentinel Private Wealth, has been charged with breaching a financial services banning order on three occasions ...

Madison delivers for Clime one year on

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
... has been underpinned by a balance of established practices on the one hand and innovation through technology and fresh adviser talent on the other," she said. Additionally, Donat is seeing a steady growth in the number of referrals. "Our advisers have ...

Commonwealth FP under review, partially offloaded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... AIA's purchase of CBA's life insurance arm, this marks an expansion of that relationship and includes an advice referral arrangement for life insurance to AIA. AIA's new advice business will be called AIA Financial Wellbeing and offer personal ...

Advice engagement jumps during COVID-19

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... pandemic has raised awareness about the importance of financial advice and prompted more Australians to engage with their adviser. A study by ASX-listed firm ClearView shows that demand for financial advice is building - despite record numbers of advisers ...

Former AMP adviser in enforceable undertaking

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
The glamorous financial adviser wife of an ex-NRL player has been ordered to pay ASIC's legal costs and comply with its enforceable undertaking. Jenan Thorne - wife of former Canterbury Bulldogs player Robin Thorne - was prevented from providing financial ...

Connectus empowers advisers with Excelerate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
International wealth management firm Connectus Wealth Advisers is set to roll out a new program aimed at increasing adviser efficiency, driving scale and enhancing the client experience and outcomes. Connectus, which is owned by NASDAQ-listed Focus ...