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Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
A room full of finance professionals tackled tricky case studies at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Forum in Sydney yesterday afternoon. Technical services professionals from IOOF and BT Financial Group presented case studies based on two ...

ANZ dragged its heels on adviser misconduct

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The former chief executive of ANZ-aligned RI Advice told the Royal Commission the group took "too long to act" on adviser misconduct. Darren Whereat discussed the case study of former RI Advice authorised representative John Doyle with Senior Counsel ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Day 4 and 5)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... everything you need to know: April 20: First casualty at AMP, BTFG talks culture, Westpac refuses reference check for an errant adviser Before the Commission in Melbourne woke up for the day, AMP announced chief executive Craig Meller would step down ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... Commission, former Westpac customer Jacqueline McDowall was brought to tears relaying her experience with a Westpac financial adviser in 2015. Answering to Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr, McDowall explained how she sought the assistance of the Melbourne ...

AMP admits to serious misconduct in RC submissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... services being provided. Orr first highlighted instances in which service fees were still charged after the client's adviser sold the rights to the service and the right to be paid by the clients to an AMP licensee under a BOLR arrangement. "Upon ...

Milliman launches course correction tool for retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... period the All Ordinaries fell in the vicinity of 51%. It took almost five years for the index to recover. "That's a serious case of sequencing risk," Matterson said at the time. "In order to understand this problem, we've noticed that there's a lot ...

Spotlight on financial elder abuse

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... flat arrangement for Centrelink purposes, but then legal advice might not be sought. The fact that there was a financial adviser who may have discussed the implications with the client, is that then deemed as an informed decision?" a delegate asked. ...

Institutions suffer financial adviser drain

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... the table was unsurprising given that it remains, by far, Australia's largest advice group. The next-biggest source of adviser drain was ANZ, which saw 197 people move on, followed by NAB (147) and Westpac (128). The non-institutional licensees that ...

Government expert panel hands down proposed education standards for existing advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Under the proposed standards released today by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, all existing advisers will be required to make a choice between several different education pathways -and some of their current qualifications may fail ...

Accessing financial wellbeing: The power of general advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... developing a mechanism to get more Australians engaged with their financial wellbeing at this year's AFA National Adviser Conference. "Australians are in need of financial advice more than ever. Money stress causes us to take time off from work ...