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Super funds lack data for effective retirement assistance: Study

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
Super funds lack crucial data on members' retirement income certainty preferences, hindering effective retirement assistance and compliance with Retirement Income Covenant obligations, research by Capital Preferences and Challenger reveals. The ...

Sequoia strikes deal to acquire Clique Paraplanning

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
Sequoia Financial Group has acquired the business assets of Clique Paraplanning in cash on an earn out revenue multiple of about one. According to an ASX announcement, the deal comprised of $150,000 in cash and $60,000 in shares. The earn out and final ...

Dirigere Advisory rebrands to Intelligent Planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
Financial advice licensing support provider Dirigere Advisory has rebranded to Intelligent Planning, hiring a new advice distribution manager in the process. Intelligent Planning was launched on January 15 and operates under the same Dirigere AFSL. ...

Unlisted asset valuation practices under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
APRA has confirmed it will conduct a "deep dive review" of funds' exposures to unlisted assets later this year. Combining its policy and supervision priorities for the first time to give regulated entities a better idea of what to expect in the year ...

AI is not the 'Wild West': Longo

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
Despite the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI), existing obligations around good governance and the provision of financial services remain robust, according to ASIC chair Joe Longo. Addressing the crowd yesterday at the UTS Human Technology ...

ASIC files contempt orders against repeat offender

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
ASIC has filed a contempt application in the Federal Court against former Wealth & Risk Management (WRM) director Joshua David Fuoco. In February 2018, the Melbourne-based wealth manager was ordered by the Federal Court not to carry on or be involved ...

Penta Capital fined for fabricated FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ASIC has fined a firm for making several false statements that included claims it managed nearly $7 billion in assets when it does not. Queensland-based Penta Capital boasted on its website between May 2022 and February 2023 that it managed $6.9 billion ...

Adviser registration deadline moves to February 16

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
ASIC has again pushed back the financial adviser registration deadline in fear that many relevant providers will not make the February 1 cut off. The 4036 advisers who as of January 18 have outstanding registrations, according to ASIC, now have until ...

Advisers urged to check ASIC registration status

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024
Despite the February 1 deadline fast approaching, the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) says there's close to 6000 financial advisers who are still not registered with ASIC. Under the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response ...

Spheria mulls converting emerging companies LIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024
Spheria Emerging Companies (SEC) has floated a conditional proposal allowing shareholders to exchange their shares for units in the Spheria Australian Smaller Companies Fund. This follows SEC consistently trading below its net tangible asset (NTA) per ...