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Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair appointed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
Former APRA member John Trowbridge has been appointed independent chairman of the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group established by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC). The working group will address ...

ASIC suspends advice firm for three months

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended a boutique financial planning practice for three months after it failed to comply with its compliance obligations. Protect Ensure, with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, has had ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...

Dover in search of compliance staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Dealer group Dover Financial Advisers has appointed a new executive to the compliance team and identified the need for at least two more to accommodate advice firms' growth. According to the latest Rainmaker Advantage report from March 2014, Dover is ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
In terms of hedge fund size, there is a sweet spot in which it is easiest to operate, but which the vast majority of allocators are ignoring, according to FRM chief investment officer Keith Haydon. Addressing representatives of the Australian and global ...

Forget about national advice exam, focus on training: CPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
A national examination for financial advisers would fail to address the current deficiencies and, instead, CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants ANZ say the focus should be on adviser training and establishing a comprehensive curriculum. A single ...

Ai Group defends super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) has called for superannuation default funds to remain within the modern awards system. In its second-round submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) the employer group, which represents more than 6000 businesses ...

Kinetic Super launches intra-fund advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... will be provided and licenced under the AFSL of Industry Fund Services (IFS) and delivered by IFS Authorised Representatives "operating within Kinetic Super's Member Experience Team either over the phone or face-to-face." Kinetic Super chief executive ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The financial advice sector is in need of change and a new Advice Competency Standards Board should lead the transformation, according to the Financial Services Council (FSC). The new body would oversee the development of competency standards, adviser ...

FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
A new government agency should be established to progress the global export of our funds management industry, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said in its second round submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The new body, as envisaged ...