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David Koch joins forces with Adviser Ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
Sunrise co-host David Koch has become a shareholder in financial adviser review service Adviser Ratings. The Adviser Ratings platform lets consumers search, compare and review their financial advisers, and was recently revamped to make use of the data ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
ASIC's "facilitative approach" to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) opt-in and fee disclosure statement requirements ends today, but forward-thinking practices have nothing to worry about. The deadline was originally June 30, 2014, but it was extended ...

IOOF advice firm jumps ship to Fitzpatricks

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
An advice firm licensed under IOOF-owned Lonsdale has changed dealer groups and moved to non-aligned Fitzpatricks Private Wealth. Hobart-based Main Street Financial Solutions is licensed under Fitzpatricks starting July 1, 2015, principal Charles Badenach ...

Findex acquires private wealth firm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
Findex Group has acquired Melbourne-based accounting and financial advice firm Martin Goodrich & Associates (MGA). MGA will be relocated to the Crowe Horwath's Melbourne offices but will retain its branding "during a transition phase," according to ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
We might have to go pass the 11th hour and into the 13th for the "adults" in the "emergency summit" room continue to disagree to agree. Yes Virginia, the Greeks and the troika have exhausted the third of the three scheduled talks this week and still... ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Risk advisers expressed concern that the industry-led risk reforms package ignores the problem of vertical integration and client-driven policy churn. Synchron director Don Trapnell told Financial Standard that the reform improved on the initial Trowbridge ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Industry superannuation funds may deploy up to $15 billion additional capital over the next five years after Australia joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair, Peter Collins, said activities of the ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Australia's life insurance advisers and providers have reached an agreement to transition from high upfront commissions to alternative remuneration models. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Now that Grexit worries have been sorted - sort of - and a Graccident averted (yet again), financial markets are likely to look for the next big worry. They don't have to scour far, wide and yonder - it was out-headlined by Greece these past few days ...

Medcraft sticks up for asset managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Imposing new banking regulations on asset managers would be like "creating a square peg for a round hole," according to ASIC and International Oraganization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) chair Greg Medcraft. Speaking in his capacity as the head ...