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PE Capital in liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... Funds Management is now in liquidation after the Federal Court found that it operated managed investment schemes without an AFSL and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. The court found that over $16 million was invested in the registered and ...

Advice firm rebrands, scores own AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
The move to self-licensing continues to grow as a Victoria-based advice practice scored its own AFSL after operating under a dealer group for 13 years. Armed with a new AFSL, Retireinvest has rebranded to Templeton Advice Group. Templeton has three ...

Advice industry loses 800 over New Year period

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... trend Rainmaker found is the rapid rate in which advisers moved between licensees. In 2021, nearly 13% switched to a new AFSL. Another finding was the shift towards the non-aligned sector, which is growing at an unprecedented rate, Rainmaker said. The ...

Adviser population drops below 19,000

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... 2200 advisers this year, marking an 11% year-on-year drop to 18,822. Rainmaker modelling of ASIC's Financial Adviser Register reveals that only 18,822 advisers are left as of yesterday, December 16. At the beginning of 2021, there were 21,103 practising ...

Women advisers drop to 21%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... industry has dropped to 21% compared to 25% two years ago. Rainmaker's modelling of the September ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows that only one in five financial advisers out of the total pool of 19,238 are women. The ratio is reflected across ...

More advisers switching practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... movement of financial advisers across AFS licences (AFSLs) and financial advice practices using the ASIC Financial Advisers Register. "With adviser numbers fluctuating by around 7000, over 25%, in the past three years, the adviser movements pipeline ...

ASIC provides licensing update

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... - revealing an increase in applications. The regulator revealed that between July 2020 and June 2021, ASIC received 1883 AFSL applications and ACL applications, representing a significant increase from the 1346 received in the previous financial year. ...

Better Advice regulations hit parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... which will come into effect from 1 January 2022, makes the registration of a financial planner the responsibility of their AFSL in year one until the financial adviser register is transferred from ASIC to the ATO in 2023," he said. "While the AFSL registering ...

Adviser numbers fall below 20k

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... advisers to the group during the period, bringing its total to 385. IOOF completed its acquisition of MLC Wealth on June 1. The AFSL for the newly merged group, based on ASIC's FAR, is under Consultum Financial Planning. MLC brands that moved over - ...

Global Merces MD cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... financial services until 28 October 2021. ASIC found that Grofski was involved in Global Merces' failure to comply with its AFSL conditions and replace key persons named on its licence. Global Merces also failed to lodge audit reports for the group and ...