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Global Financial Innovation Network launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
ASIC is helping launch the Global Financial Innovation Network, a group of financial regulators that aim to promote financial innovation across borders. ASIC is part of GFIN, which supports cross-border testing of innovative businesses. In floating ...

Wealth group acquires asset manager stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Aura Group has acquired a majority stake (55%) in Vantage Point Asset Management in a bid to expand its funds management businesses. Aura said the acquisition will diversify its products to include more liquid absolute-return funds and provide Vantage ...

Pacific Current Group expands US investment

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... founded by Bill Hamm JR - who currently serves as chief executive officer and president - in the year 2000. He then acquired a group of 10 advisers operating on a hybrid RIA platform. IFP is now 500 advisers strong and spans across the entirety of the ...

Count Financial seeks new GM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
The general manager of Commonwealth Bank-owned dealer group Count Financial has resigned. A spokesperson for Commonwealth Bank confirmed Ed Box has left the licensee to pursue a retail banking opportunity outside of CBA Group. Hugh Humphrey, CBA executive ...

Grandfathered commissions: Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... yet to state any changes in their position on the payments, though ANZ has now sold its advice dealer groups to IOOF - a group which is also yet to make a move on grandfathered commissions. Grandfathered commissions do have at least one public proponent ...

ASIC sharpens focus on managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... how these are managed and other relevant matters." In 2019, IMAP flagged ASIC will approach financial advisers to form a group that will provide insight into how advice is developed relating to managed accounts. The group's aim is to identify actual ...

FICAP launches 2019 program, names new charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... Through FICAP, Learning Links said that they were able to provide 45-minute weekly tutoring programs over 10 weeks at a group of schools, helping children there who were, at worst, three years behind on their numeracy skills. The third - and the newest ...

Practifi continues growth trajectory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... reviewing every piece of advice generated. TIQK chief executive Steve Thomson said he is delighted to have partnered with a group that shares the regtech's vision for ensuring advice is both compliant and in the best interests of clients. "A component ...

Advice firm hires for increasing regulatory environment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
A prominent financial advice and accounting firm is welcoming a director of financial reporting to assist in the management of an increasing regulatory environment. HLB Mann Judd has hired Michelle Warren in the newly created role. Warren will oversee ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... time of intense development," he said. Integrity currently offers group insurance and is piloting retail products with a group of specialist insurance advisers. Managing director Chris Powell told Financial Standard that big institutions still use legacy ...