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PROFILE: Westpac GM of bank financial planning

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... move to Sydney, BNSW had merged with Commercial Bank of Australia to become Westpac. "In Sydney I was running all the training for the documentation of mortgages. That role then led me into doing development training. And then I ended up in a supervisory ...

Count and SPAA partner to provide SMSF training

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) have partnered to provide self-managed super fund (SMSF) specialised training and education to Count members. Count is encouraging its advisers to join SPAA by offering them a special rate, as well ...

Parliament passes more nuanced SMSF penalties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... penalising them at all. The new rules give the ATO more nuanced ways of dealing with problems, such as fines and mandatory training. The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australian (SPAA) welcomed the passage of the legislation, with chief executive ...

CareSuper reshuffles board, appoints first female chair

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... March 2012 and has previously been chief executive and director of AGEST Super, and chief executive of the government training agency TUTA. She is the current President of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and the national chair ...

Advisers to complete 60 extra education hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... and presentations of technical publications, peer review of research internet-assisted courses, attendance at in-house training on tax related subjects attendance at appropriate ATO seminars and presentations or a unit of study or other CPE activity ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... luckily Tooheys had a gym as well, so you might do a lunch-time session or something like that, and then you'd head out to training after that. Training would start at 6:30-7, and then you finished at 9, and then it started all over again the next day." ...

ASIC enhances whistleblower communication

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... relevant ASIC teams. The misconduct and breach reporting team and whistleblower liaison officers will soon receive new training on awareness of whistleblower protections and handling whistleblower complaints. ASIC will also make efforts to ensure that ...

Industry funds oppose bachelor degree for general advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... expressed these ideas in a joint submission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) consultation on training of financial product advisers (CP212). The organisations representing industry super funds expressed "concern that increasing ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Running one of the nation's most highly regarded training programs for financial advisers might seem like an unusual job for a former typist turned IT executive but Mark Smith found out that it is actually the most fitting role for AMP Horizons director ...

TPB releases guidance on conflict of interest

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... the registered agent to declare conflicts of interest," keeping a register of private interests, undertaking relevant training and seeking advice from an independent third party. The TPB has released the information sheet following a consultation process ...