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AMP caught on conflicts

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... regulator for giving 300 clients unnecessary or inadequate super switching advice and having inadequate conflicts of interest procedures in place. Only months after the regulator's shadow shopping exercise threw the whole advice industry into turmoil ...

Paragem draws two for independent support

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2006
... Higgins, cited fundamentally similar reasons for choosing to partner with Paragem. "We wanted to eliminate conflicts of interest between the IOOF platform and products we use and the licensee ownership. By using Paragem to assist with our license application ...

ACSI praised for corporate governance campaign

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
The Australian Council for Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has been praised for its work in the area of corporate governance and president Michael O'Sullivan has been elected to the board of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). ACSI ...

FPA preps members on conflicts of interest principles

... Financial Planning Association (FPA) has issued a guide designed to help their members manage potential conflicts of interest. The four key principles for managing conflicts of interest were first announced in March and the first principle - relating ...

Govt will not ban commissions: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) shadow shopping report, which highlighted a problem of conflicts of interest, when advisers were selling products with commissions attached. In a veiled acknowledgement of the ASIC report and ...

Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... existing regulation," he said. Pearce also congratulated the FPA on introducing principles for managing conflicts of interest that will be adopted by members from July this year. "I know the FPA is doing a good job and that its member are not wishing ...

Independence pays for Frontier

... provide implemented consulting or have their own managed fund products, which could potentially lead to conflicts of interest. "We want to provide quality investment advice in a conflict-free environment. We've been doing that in the last six years and ...

Super adviser loses license after ASIC super switching survey

... SMS Advising Group. ASIC will take action against financial services providers that do not properly manage conflicts of interest to ensure that they put the interests of their clients above their own," said Jan Redfern, ASIC's executive director of enforcement. ...

Amicus builds business on flat planning fee

... a flat fee-for-service model that is gaining fans among planners keen to sidestep the current debacle on conflicts of interest surrounding commission-based fees. Amicus is run by financial planner Robert Skinner who has a long history in the industry ...

NAB rolls out in-house planner strategy

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
... choice between fee for service and commission based remuneration. He said that it is a move to avoid the conflicts of interest shadow that has hung over the industry in recent years and was highlighted by the recent shadow shopping results. "We identified ...