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FPA and AFA set to merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... exactly how many members will sit under the FAA, currently there are about 11,000 FPA members and more than 2000 AFA members. Legal completion is expected to take place on April 3 and a transition period will run from April to June, including adopting ...

SEC fines Mormon Church investment arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... creation of the shell companies. In response, the Church said: "The Church's senior leadership received and relied upon legal counsel when it approved of the use of the external companies to make the filings. Ensign Peak handled the mechanics of ...

Victim access to super should be extended: Associations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023
... our view, have their superannuation balances at risk." The associations said that the objective should be to avoid the old legal maxim that "hard cases make bad laws", highlighting the fact the government's discussion paper cites "a number of high-profile ...

ASIC dodges PGPA investigation questioning

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... ASIC's deputy chair," he said. "This fact was confirmed after an effort to cover up the inquiry was attempted by ASIC's legal team. "An inquiry into a Commissioner of the corporate regulator must not be hidden. Australia's corporate cop must ...

"A lawyer's picnic": QAR report slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... shoddy advice on a mass scale, provided by unqualified staff," he said. "... It will take years for the courts to clarify new legal definitions and lots of people will lose money in the meantime." Both Super Consumers Australia and CHOICE agreed that ...

AMP completes infrastructure equity business sale

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
... non-binding term sheet that outlines a two-stage completion process. If binding agreements are reached, the transfer of most legal entities within AMP's domestic real estate and infrastructure business, along with effective day-to-day management ...

FPA, AFA merger consultation to close

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
The member consultation period on a proposed merger between the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is due to close on January 31, with members encouraged to provide their feedback before then. ...

TPB bans PwC partner over breach

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2023
... staff of PwC. According to the TPB, Collins failed to act with integrity, as required under his professional, ethical, and legal obligations, and terminated his tax agent registration. In addition, the TPB investigation determined that PwC had failed ...

Paraplanners happy to stay put: Survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
According to the Paraplanner Hub and Tanngo's Australian Paraplanner Survey 2022, less and less paraplanners (80%) are wanting to become financial advisers. Paraplanners don't want to move into advising because they don't want to be in client ...

Link Fund Solutions hit with further legal action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
... liquidity issues and left over $6 billion of investor funds frozen; Link Fund Solutions was the trustee of the fund. The legal issues faced by Link have seen Dye and Durham dump plans to acquire the administrator, with the decision made after the UK ...