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Synchron appoints state manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Financial advice dealer group Synchron named Matthew Wallis as the new state manager for New South Wales. Wallis will succeed Paul Del Grande who resigned to focus on his financial advice practice, InSync Financial Services. Sydney-based Wallis has ...

SEC cracks down on fee transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will crackdown on financial product providers' fee disclosures the year ahead in a bid to protect mum and dad investors. The SEC made it clear that one of its main priorities this year is ...

Colonial First State awards $385m mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Colonial First State has awarded a $385 million global real estate securities mandate to a global asset management firm. Deutsche Asset Management will oversee the strategy, headed up by the firm's global real estate securities team. The team is led ...

Advisers can fill aged care demand gap: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
The growing demand for aged care planning will shift financial advisers' service offering and provide a new source of revenue in the medium-term, a joint study by Aged Care Steps and Swiss Re reveals. The research, which explored the challenges and ...

ASIC puts corner-cutting advisers on notice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
ASIC is warning financial advice dealer groups about the consequences of failing to correctly witness binding death nominations for superannuation benefits. The regulator said many nominations are at risk of being rejected by trustees as it has become ...

Sunsuper director steps down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
A Sunsuper director has resigned from the board after serving half a term. Teresa Moltoni, who first joined the board in July 2016, will step down to focus on the expansion of her industrial relations consultancy and legal practice, effective January ...

ASIC takes further action against MyPlanner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Following on from ASIC's recent action against privately-owned MyPlanner, one of the dealer group's advisers has now agreed to refrain from providing financial services. The regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from James Fraser as a result ...

Spring FG acquires $200m dealer group

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
Listed wealth firm Spring Financial Group has acquired a dealer group with a combined $200 million in funds under advice. Under the terms of the acquisition, Spring FG will pay a total consideration of $1.67 million to acquire all issued capital of ...

ASIC widens conflicted adviser remuneration rules

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
ASIC has added additional conditions to its definitions of conflicted remuneration in financial advice both in light of recent reforms and to address specific concerns. Issued ahead of the life insurance framework deadline on January 1, Regulatory Guide ...

Deutsche Asset Management rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
Deutsche Bank's asset management business will rebrand under its global retail arm DWS. The bank said all of Deutsche Asset Management's business lines - institutional and retail segments and across its active, passive and alternatives range - will ...