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ASIC extends SoA relief measure

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
Corporate regulator ASIC is extending the temporary Statement of Advice relief measure until 15 April 2022. This marks the second time that ASIC has extended the relief measure, which enables advisers to replace SoAs with Records of Advice for existing ...

FSC advice reforms slash time, costs by 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... costs. Simplifying the advice model would lead to a 9% reduction in the cost of production, while removing the Statement of Advice in place of the Letter of Advice would help reduce overall costs by 17%. Further, adopting the changes could potentially ...

IDII pitfalls advisers should avoid

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
... features - provided that the costs incurred are understood. Cameron urged advisers to document everything in the Statement of Advice or Record of Advice and that the client understands the recommendations. "If the rising cost of cover is something that ...

ROAR launches interactive SOA tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021
Financial planning technology firm ROAR Software has launched a Statement of Advice solution that comes with a human avatar. DynamicDocs, launched in partnership with customer engagement video software platform HumanableCX, converts Word-based SOAs ...

Advisers overlook home equity release strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... according to new research. Regtech Fourth Line and retiree financial services provider Pension Boost looked at the Statement of Advice of 15 licensees and 1980 financial advisers. Of the 5000 SOAs produced between 1 July 2019 to 15 May 2021, not one ...

ROA relief guidance released

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... is required because a client has suffered adverse economic effects as a result of COVID-19, in place of the Statement of Advice. The ROA must have a brief explanation of changes in the client's relevant personal circumstances as a result of the pandemic. ...

ASIC announces advice affordability findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
... guidance is needed. A business' overheads and fixed costs are driving up the cost of advice, ASIC found. The Statement of Advice preparation, which includes client and product research, is a costly exercise. Some 146 respondents supported allowing ...

ASIC cancels BBY licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... former BBY adviser, who it said traded with client's money without their authorisation and outside of the Statement of Advice.

Licensee awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... time on administrative work as a result of this new partnership. The solution is speeding up file notes and Statement of Advice generation and eliminates the need for a paper-based fact finder, the dealer group's managing director Sam El Shammaa ...

Asendium launches swift SOA solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
The fintech has officially launched a solution that slashes the time to generate a statement of advice from eight hours to two hours. Asendium is aiming to reduce three major bottlenecks for advisers: processes, people and fragmented systems. Asendium ...