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Unlicensed adviser faces court

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
ASIC has taken Investment Intelligence Corporation director Senen Pousa to court in Brisbane. Pousa has been charged with facilitating IIC practicing financial services without an Australian Financial Services Licence between September 11 and June 2012. ...

STOXX enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Global index provider STOXX Limited has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of an office in Sydney. Jonathan Morgan has been appointed STOXX regional director and will head the Sydney office, with responsibility for STOXX ...

Stockbrokers Association appoints chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
The Stockbrokers Association of Australia has appointed its new chief executive and managing director. Andrew Green was previously chief executive of the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. He described his new role as being to ...

Nikko names new Australian managing director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Nikko Asset Management has named the man to replace Mike Davis at the head of its Australian business. Sam Hallinan will take up the role of managing director from 1 April. Hallinan was most recently general manager of investment management at NAB Asset ...

New Westpac chief executive scraps previous position

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
In his first day as Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has restructured the company's Australian Financial Services division. Hartzer was previously head of the division, which represents more than half of Westpac's profits and comprises its business ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
A life insurance policy has more in common with car insurance policies than with an investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk ...

AdviserLogic launches licensee-to-adviser tech tool

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
Software provider AdviserLogic has launched a tool to connect licensees and advisers more efficiently. The new services include a Licensee Console that allows advisers to create content, update it and automatically make it available to their planners' ...

ASIC cancels boutique's AFSL

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
Boutique Protect Ensure Pty Ltd has had its Australian financial services (AFS) licence cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following a suspension of its licence earlier this year. ASIC suspended Protect Ensure's ...

Treasury seeks consultation on adviser register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Treasury has started the consultation process on the public register of financial advisers, with submissions closing on December 17. The adviser register will be implemented as an amendment to the Corporations Act and approved through regulation. The ...

Original FoFA laws take immediate effect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
Financial advisers must fully comply with Labor's original Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws from today, after the Senate voted to disallow the government's amendments last night. The reversion to the original legislation took effect as soon as ...