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CBA publicly welcomes former staff bans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... deceptive conduct. CBA said these cases highlight the importance of the Adviser Register that was put in place by ASIC on 31 March 2015. The Adviser Register is designed to assist consumers to verify a financial adviser's authorisations to provide financial ...

ASIC bans former NAB-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... adviser from Meritum Financial Group, which is wholly owned by NAB. Alfie Chong worked at Meritum from September 2005 to March 2006, and then July 2007 to June 2014. During that time, ASIC has alleged that Chong engaged in a range of misconduct, including ...

David Koch joins forces with Adviser Ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... financial advisers, and was recently revamped to make use of the data in ASIC's Financial Adviser Register, launched in March. As part of Koch's involvement in the platform, Adviser Ratings will expand into delivering educational material to Australian ...

Adviser Ratings revamps website in prep for FAR launch

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... service Adviser Ratings has updated its website to accommodate ASIC's first adviser register (FAR), launching at the end of March. The website, which currently has a database of 18,000 advisers, now provides users with further details about planner costs ...

Advisers scramble to gather ASIC register data

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Financial advisers and dealer groups are in "a scramble to be ready" for the March 31 deadline to submit information to the public register of financial advisers, Veda head of wealth Mark Hoven said. Hoven told Financial Standard that advisers and licensees ...

Advice register more detailed than expected

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... included in the register will also need to notify ASIC of any relevant changes to their profile. The register will launch on March 31 and it is an initiative supported by all industry bodies. The Australian Bankers Association said following the release ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... the debate became so heated that it made its way into mainstream media, bringing financial advice under the spotlight. In March, Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos was forced to step aside due to his involvement in an ICAC investigation. Finance Minister ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... government's public financial adviser register will include adviser's qualifications and professional association memberships by March 2015, Treasury has confirmed. A statement by the department confirmed that the register will also include the adviser's ...

Treasury seeks consultation on adviser register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... expected that the regulation will commence shortly after. Licensees and certain authorised representatives will have from March 9 to March 30 to lodge information about their existing relevant providers with ASIC, which is currently building the IT infrastructure ...

Adviser Ratings attracts mostly positive reviews

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... launch the government has announced its own plans to develop a financial adviser public register that is set to launch in March 2015.