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CPA Australia scraps advice offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
CPA Australia is dropping its financial advice offering after a review determined it was not financially viable. CPA Australia Advice notified its existing authorised representatives and staff on Friday of its intention to shutter, saying it will assist ...

ASIC bans Queensland adviser, suspends licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
ASIC has put a four-year ban on a Queensland adviser for failing to act in his clients' best interests while providing advice on self-managed superannuation funds. James Cribb allegedly advised in a manner that was likely to benefit his own SMSF administration ...

Advisers demand self-licensing regime: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
A majority of financial advisers would welcome an overhaul of the AFS licensing regime, a recent survey shows. The majority (78%) of financial advisers polled in Financial Standard's sister publication FS Advice would prefer to be self-licensed, similar ...

Dover advisers turn orphans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
While there are Dover financial advisers that have managed to transition elsewhere in recent weeks, latest ASIC data shows hundreds of advisers will be without a licensee when the disgraced AFSL shutters today. Rainmaker analysis of ASIC's Financial ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
The financial services Royal Commission exposed more boiler room sales tactics of call centre staff selling life insurance which drove poor behaviour and a sales-driven culture, and effectively breached anti-hawking provisions. Select AFSL managing ...

Macquarie axes grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
Macquarie will axe the payment of grandfathered commissions to financial advisers working within its wealth management division. Following BT Financial Group's lead, Macquarie has said it will discontinue the practice of advisers within its private ...

Dover AFSL cancelled, McMaster exits industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
ASIC has accepted a Court Enforceable Undertaking from Dover Financial Advisers and Terry McMaster will leave the financial services industry. ASIC confirmed the action resulted from an ASIC investigation which commenced in 2017, with a particular focus ...

Qualitas creates LIT, enters retail market

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Real estate manager Qualitas is in the final stages of launching a listed investment trust, its first exchange-traded product and its first foray into the retail investment market. The listed investment trust (LIT) will focus on commercial real estate ...

ASIC not to blame for trust deficit: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton rejects suggestions that historic inaction by the regulator contributed to the significant trust deficit present in Australia's financial services industry. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

ASIC admits AMP inaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
ASIC has acknowledged it was aware prior to the Royal Commission that AMP was allegedly attempting to mislead the regulator. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Canberra today, senior leaders at ASIC admitted ...