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RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... uninsured for three months, and finally charged him an exit fees of $16,000. He failed to meet the minimum standards in his audit, was referred to an advice committee chaired by Britt, and let go with the belief that he was new and junior and could improve ...

AMP kept unsuspecting clients in the dark: RC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... Britt agreed did not justify or outweigh the exit fee. Two months before meeting the couple, AMP conducted Mr E's first audit, which unravelled several areas of improvement and concerns over his ability to comply with his best interest duties. He was ...

ANZ blames systems for inadequate controls: RC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
ANZ has blamed its systems and processes for failing to adequately monitor in-house financial advisers as well as its authorised representatives within three of its aligned dealer groups. Week two of the Royal Commission tasked with scrutinising advice ...

ANZ dragged its heels on adviser misconduct

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... much faster," he added. "The entire experience from the onboarding process up until we satisfied ourselves at the third audit took too long. I would like to improve and learn from this case study such that the process you talked about in terms of vetting ...

Westpac obscured bad adviser reference check

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The Royal Commission found Westpac downplayed the gravity of former financial adviser Andrew Smith's misconduct not only to the regulator but with another licensee he was joining. Smith commenced as a financial adviser with Westpac subsidiary St George ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Day 4 and 5)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
As the Royal Commission disbands for the week, Financial Standard summarises all the evidence heard on day four and five of the financial advice industry's turn before Commissioner Kenneth Hayne. Executives from Westpac, CBA and AMP have now made an ...

Royal Commission latest: CBA doing more with fewer advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... be allocated once advisers exited. The bank had no standard operating procedures, a "source of truth", supervision or an audit of such processes, he alleged. According to the memo, there were 257 paying clients who weren't receiving ongoing services ...

AMP platform fees laid bare

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... deduct fees from their accounts either every month or quarter and remit these to licensees. It is then up to the licensee's audit and compliance division to ensure that the adviser does provide a service to the fees deducted - no other control measures ...

AMP admits to serious misconduct in RC submissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... with potential other compliance concerns, including breaches of internal business rules or standards resulting in adverse audit results or financial losses by clients. "Inappropriate advice by 14 advisers between 1 January 2009 and 30 June 2015 had resulted ...

Netwealth sells Pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
Netwealth has offloaded its Pathway subsidiary to a large financial services technology provider. Pathway Licensee Services was acquired by IRESS for an undisclosed amount on 1 April. The platform provider confirmed the sale in a quarterly update to ...