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Mandatory qualifications will lead to adviser exodus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Enforcing minimum qualifications for financial advisers will lead to many leaving the industry, according to Connect Financial Services Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan. Speaking to Financial Standard, Tynan pointed to the results of introducing minimum ...

TASA breach costs business $900,000

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... business has been fined a record $900,000 penalty for breaches of the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) that all financial advisers need to comply with. The Federal Court of Australia ruled against Peter Kolya and his Canberra-based business HP Kolya ...

ASIC bans Macquarie representative

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... undertaking accepted by ASIC in January 2013. ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell said investors should feel confident that financial advisers are acting within the authority given to them by their licensee at all times and appropriately representing their ...

InvestSense launches asset allocation guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
A new investment guide aimed at giving advisers insight into expected levels of risk and return within different assets classes has been launched by portfolio construction and consulting firm, InvestSense. InvestSense, which was spun out from ailing ...

Advisers and mortgage brokers joining forces

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... rather than referral arrangements. Centrepoint Lending Solutions general manager Kevin Frost noticed this trend after advisers started looking to his business to help find mortgage brokers to join their practice. In some cases this has involved planning ...

Advice firm ditches platform, adopts MDA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... of interest from advice firms. Agarwal is the winner of several industry awards including the Association of Financial Advisers' 2013 Rising Star of the Year and established MEDIQ Financial Services in 2010.

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... market, for example," Laidler said. He explained that it also makes sense in a post-Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) where advisers don't receive commissions for investments. At the same time, investors become more aware of active investment. "The implementation ...

UBS hands wealth management business to senior staff

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
UBS will pull out of wealth management in Australia and is selling off the business to existing advisers. Former head of UBS Wealth Management Mike Chisholm, together with a group of senior advisers, has established Crestone Wealth Management with Chisholm ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... industry, the Financial Standard team has asked experts to outline what the new rules might look like and the possible routes advisers can take. What qualities will the financial adviser of the future have? At the heart of the debate around raising industry ...

Lawyer slams NAB compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... number of NAB clients contacting Shine Lawyers about the issue is significantly lower than that of CBA and Macquarie advisers. In April, NAB's claims of an independent review process were questioned by the Senate Economics Committee during aA public ...