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Adviser permanently banned for faking qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... not. It further found he misled 24 clients, claiming to have met the education requirements when he provided them with personal advice. Vee worked with Cojag from October 2021 to December 2021 and then again between March 2022 and March 2023, however ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... financial advisers $48.39 million collectively as the annual levy does not appear to be reducing. Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial products are due to fork out a minimum levy of $1500 plus $2878 on a per ...

Advisers encouraged to embrace AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The Investment Trends Adviser Technology Needs Report found financial advisers are showing a strong demand for better technology integration as they look to consolidate their tech stacks. Interestingly, the survey found the adoption of artificial intelligence ...

AAT slashes adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... whether, intentional or reckless. They did involve carelessness." "Having regard to all the relevant matters, including personal and general deterrence and the need to promote public confidence in the financial services sector the Tribunal considered ...

First advice reform bill passes parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... flexibility in producing the Financial Services Guides, and improve transparency and protections for consumers who receive personal advice on insurance products. Before passing the bill, lawmakers amended it for highly contentious sections 99FA(1)(a) ...

IFS launches two courses with Kaplan

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... aims to define a clear career progression pathway from service staff providing general advice to practitioners providing personal advice. Gervasoni added that "we believe the proposed education solution can be incorporated into our broader range of consultancy ...

AAT mitigates adviser's permanent ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... North Sydney. Prior to that he had stints with Strategic Capital Management, Perpetual and ipac. ASIC found he provided personal advice to 11 retail clients after failing the mandatory adviser exam. Justice Kyrou said: "In order to uphold the integrity ...

Brighter Super launches Retire Easy Pension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... David Koch, also known as Kochie, as retirement ambassador. The partnership sees the former television personality and personal finance guru provide insights and guidance to the fund's members via an online resource center and webinars and in-person ...

Iress hack investigation finds 20 OneVue files breached

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... platform's production environment was accessed. Following investigation, Iress has now confirmed a limited amount of personal information relating to 20 OneVue employees and clients was accessed. This is because the part of the OneVue production ...

ASIC freezes assets of Melbourne based licensee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... August 2017. The company described itself as an investment and financial advisory firm specialising in the provision of personal financial and investment advice to private investors. Global Capital Property Fund has been an authorised representative ...