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Draft advice reforms not enough: FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... the personal responsibility of each financial planner and is not connected with their employment or authorisation under an AFSL," he said. ASIC has recommended its Financial Services and Credit Panel serve as the single disciplinary body, which would ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... Royal Commission days, ending at 20,667 in the first quarter of 2021. Rainmaker analysis of ASIC's Financial Adviser Register found that the total number of financial advisers have tapered off to levels experienced in 2016 (see Figure 1). About five ...

Aware to restructure advice offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... they actually are," Aware group executive, advice and financial planning Sarah Forman said. Aware integrated the StatePlus AFSL into the fund in 2019 when it was still known as First State Super. At the start of 2020 First State had 232 financial advisers ...

Remains of Melissa Caddick found

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... was posing as a financial adviser, without being registered or qualified, and was providing financial services without an AFSL. A spokesperson for ASIC told Financial Standard that despite today's announcement that remains have been identified, its investigation ...

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
The corporate regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Halifax Investment Services nearly two years after it was placed into administration. The cancellation took effect from 8 January 2021 and allows the licence to operate ...

Almost 3000 advisers gone in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... joining, according to Rainmaker analysis of the Financial Adviser Register. AMP Financial Planning lost the most advisers of any AFSL this year, with 323 departing between January and December. The Advisers' Association Neil Macdonald said there are ...

Fastest-growing AFSLs in the country

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... months to September end. And which AFSLs have the biggest market share. Overall, there were 19,357 advisers attached to an AFSL at September end, down 2597 from a year ago. In the 12 months, 2832 new names were registered while nearly twice the amount ...

Synchron compliance lead moves to AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... compliance so that they report directly to the Synchron board. According to Rainmaker data from June, AMP is the largest advice AFSL in Australia with 1025 registered advisers, a 4.7% market share. The second largest is the SMSF Adviser Network, an AFSL ...

Dealer groups slam FPA policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... compliance with the Corporations Act are not discretionary. The scale, systems & processes, and risk management focus of the AFSL provides an efficient way to deal with the in-built cost of providing compliant financial advice." The dealer group leaders ...

ASIC cancels two AFSLs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licenses of Western Australia-based, Personal Risk Management and Melbourne-based Australian Golden Securities ASIC said Personal Risk's cancellation took effect on 21 May 2020, after the company ...