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Former Dover, Securitor adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... and was most recently with Lifestyle Asset Management, a boutique Sydney AFSL. ASIC was notified by Securitor Financial Group, which he was licenced by from 2006 to 2010. ASIC found Chigwidden consistently failed to address the needs and objectives his ...

Former Millennium3 adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
A former Millennium3 and Beacon Financial Group adviser was banned by ASIC for failing to act in the best interests of clients by recommending insurance with unaffordable premiums. Gregory Forster received a five year ban for failing to take into account ...

Macquarie expands US funds management

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... general account supporting its life insurance business. It will also support advisors of a third-party Cetera Financial Group which is looking to buy select assets of the US brokerage and advisory business of Foresters Financial Services. Shawn Lytle ...

Westpac appoints acting advice GM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... of work to do," he said. Westpac announced last month it was exiting personal financial advice and bringing BT Financial Group back in-house. The move will see the departure of Westpac consumer bank chief executive George Frazis and BT Financial Group ...

$1.5bn pulled from Pendal

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... the end of March, up $8.1 billion over the quarter. Westpac will redeem the $1.5 billion from its Westpac/ BT Financial Group legacy books, which had about $20.5 billion in FUM. The bank announced in March that BTFG will cease to be a standalone division ...

Banks push to leave vertical integration on the table

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... only big four bank still wholly committed to wealth management - decided to exit personal advice, bringing BT Financial Group in-house and selling a number of financial advisers to Viridian Advisory. "ABA members have different strategies in relation ...

Financial advice exit a boon for the industry: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... Westpac will no longer provide personal financial advice and shift to a referral model; it will also reposition BT Financial Group as a standalone division. In handing down the banking Royal Commission final report, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne stopped ...

IOOF appoints head of advice governance

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... new head of advice governance, replacing Adrian Kwa who is set to become national head of advice at Shadforth Financial Group. An IOOF spokesperson today confirmed Kwa would remain in charge of advice governance at the wealth manager until the end of ...

Wealth heavyweights join FSC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... group chief investment officer and current FSC director David Bryant will replace outgoing deputy chair and BT Financial Group boss Brad Cooper, who leaves the council after nine years. The FSC thanked Cooper for his contribution to the council, noting ...

Managed accounts grow, but education remains low

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... solution, and 40% recognising a lack of client education as a barrier to entry. Speaking at a roundtable yesterday, BT Financial Group head of managed accounts Zac Leman said the breadth of terminology used by different platform providers wasn't ...