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ASIC dishes out permanent ban to 'lifestyle' adviser

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... 'lifestyle' financial advice as sole director of Totem Wealth in Queensland's Robina since 2017. The ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows that between 2010 and 2015 Reynolds was licensed by Westpac. He then moved to Dover Financial Advisers until its ...

ASIC FAR drops as deadline looms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022
The countdown is on for financial advisers that have yet to pass the exam to get off the ASIC Financial Adviser Register by tomorrow, as new analysis shows 295 have dropped off since the beginning of the month. Since the results of the final exam for ...

A year of change: Phil Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2022
... didn't pass. "This is in the legislation - if the adviser who doesn't pass chooses to get off the Financial Adviser Register before September 30, they will then have the chance to sit the exam at a later point," he said. "Should they pass at ...

Adviser losses now baked in: Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022
... numbers hit their peak in 2019 at 26,500, likely as a result of the need to be registered on the ASIC Financial Adviser Register to take advantage of the transition period provided to upgrade qualifications. Since, the number of advisers has dramatically ...

AFA, FPA to explore merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
... She added that the combined association has a very substantial proportion of the advisers on the ASIC Financial Adviser Register. The two entities have increasingly worked together in recent years and believe there are "substantial synergies and other ...

Latest adviser exams see 52% pass rate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
... have sat the exam to date, including more than 700 new advisers. Over 15,800 are still current on the Financial Adviser Register while more than 2500 have ceased. This marked the 18 th exam cycle and existing advisers that qualified for the nine-month ...

Adviser standards consultation commences

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... pathway. This would, at minimum, require them to have no disciplinary actions recorded against them on the Financial Adviser Register. Other sources for determining whether an adviser has a clean record could include whether their conduct has resulted ...

ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
... compliance with new requirements. On the advice front, the regulator flagged that it will also review the Financial Adviser Register to ensure it correctly records the authorisation status of existing advisers who have not passed by the relevant date. ...

Don't forget: Adviser exam deadline looms

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2022
... for at least the second time. The reminder comes after a recent Financial Standard analysis of ASIC's Financial Adviser Register, indicating a total loss of 3605 advisers from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. In the same 12-month period, only 546 new advisers ...

FS Power50 nominations open for 2022

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2022
... All shortlisted candidates will be screened, with only financial advisers registered on ASIC's Financial Adviser Register as licensed to provide personal financial advice qualified to proceed to the voting round. The 50 individuals who attract the ...