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Business giants attempt to crack financial planning

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
If you were given a financial planning practice and you had until June 2020 to raise its revenue by 25%, how would you do it? That's a question that was put to former Swisse Vitamins boss Radek Sali, former Costa Group managing director Simon Costa ...

Chief executive banned for paying wife

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
The chief executive of a small mutual insurer has copped two large fines and a ban from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority after he paid his wife close to $400,000 to reduce his personal tax liability. Stuart Forsyth ...

New role for HESTA advice executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
HESTA's former executive of advice strategy has taken on a new role at another industry fund. Justin McMinn joined the $6.5 billion LUCRF Super as a manager for business development on October 8. Prior to this, he was a part of HESTA's executive management ...

RI Advice faces ASIC action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... Advice had not yet completed the review of Doyle's client files and remediation. It had been assigned as a low priority task, the case study reads. Whereat is now the general manager of advice at IOOF.

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
An American manager looking to tap the Australian market has had a change of direction as it sees greater opportunities in superannuation funds' requirement to develop retirement income products. Thornburg Investment Management which was founded ...

Berkshire to chase growth for InvestSMART

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
The ASX-listed financial services business has hired Berkshire Global Advisors to look for growth options as its revenue from grandfathered commissions starts to dry up. Commissions on funds and insurance products accounted for more than 56% of InvestSMART's ...

Put risk on the super comparison table: AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... - risk should be firmly on the table and reflected in the comparisons," he said. "We acknowledge that this is not an easy task for APRA, given the industry itself has debated with this issue for some time. "As an industry we must all start working together ...

ASIC prepares to be primary super conduct regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... mandate, should indicate the sense of urgency and significance that the ASIC Commissioners and staff are bringing to the task," he said. "It also demonstrates that we will continue to use all of the regulatory tools at our disposal to deliver a fair ...

Consultation opens on new ASIC powers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
Treasury has released draft legislation on enhancing ASIC's powers, including allowing the regulator to tap the phones of those under investigation. The new legislation follows on from the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce which made a number of recommendations ...

United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers has rebuffed the possibility of a merger with the Financial Planning Association of Australia but acknowledged the two bodies are increasingly recognising the strength of a single voice and a single message. Speaking ...