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Sixty per cent of FPA members hold degree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... with just 35% across the planning industry as discovered during the second round hearings at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said member sentiment ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... heard evidence which included an AMP adviser identified only as Mr E, whose clients haven't even been informed of his misconduct yet. It also included a high-profile adviser who "most likely" told his employee to impersonate his client on phone calls ...

Advisers react to Royal Commission revelations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Financial advisers are struggling to comprehend the level of misconduct revealed by the past fortnight's Royal Commission hearings. Will the non-aligned advice space be strengthened by the findings? Or will the vertically integrated model withstand ...

ROYAL COMMISSION: Our top stories

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... protection policy, demonstrating its essential purpose to be to exonerate the licensee of any liability in the event of misconduct by authorised representatives. Counsel Assisting Mark Costello questioned Dover owner Terry McMaster over the document ...

Adviser regulation lacking a professional body, RC hears

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr unearthed the AFA's passive approach to disciplining and monitoring members' misconduct and why it doesn't receive a "huge amount of complaints." Since 2013 the AFA received 15 complaints about its members ...

ASIC grilled over negotiating with banks

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... its public reputation as "reaching a consensus with financial services entities about appropriate sanctions for their misconduct." Macaulay responded: "Yes, I am aware of the public view. While we do negotiate with them, ultimately, we need to be able ...

Dover roasted for 'Orwellian' protection policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... protection policy, demonstrating its essential purpose to be to exonerate the licensee of any liability in the event of misconduct by authorised representatives. Counsel Assisting Mark Costello questioned Dover owner Terry McMaster over the document ...

Royal Commission invite refused by Dover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... scale financial advice licensee to decline the Royal Commission's request for assistance in identifying instances of misconduct. Appearing before the Commission yesterday, Dover owner Terry McMaster said the licensee assumed a letter received from the ...

IOOF updates market on ANZ wealth sale

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... by parliament. ANZ fronted the Royal Commission several times last week, indicating it dragged its heels on adviser misconduct, and often blamed its systems and processes for failing to adequately monitor in-house financial advisers and authorised representatives. ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
"You are all right when you say when you say politically it would have been better for us if we had done it years ago." These are the words from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull doing a "mea culpa" for waiting two years before establishing ...