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New advice compliance solution launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... client relationshipis critical in an increasingly competitive and changing environment, McHale added. "Both financial planning and mortgage broking were once very transactional industries driven by the sale of product, but that has now changed and they ...

Calls to investigate treatment of AMP advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... investigate the AMP BOLR changes. Last year AMP made changes to its BOLR agreements, which guarantee the value of AMP Financial Planning client books, reducing them from four times annual revenue to two and a half times annual revenue. "This decision ...

FPA, TPB to share information

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tax Practitioners Board, in a move which both parties say will set out a clear framework for engagement, cooperation and proactive information sharing ...

FPA Congress moves online

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced the 2020 FPA Virtual Congress masterclass series will go live on July 9. The FPA is offering its Congress format as a virtual event for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

FASEA extension passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... particularly difficult the constant threats to the extension being achieved this year added significant pressure." Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori also welcomed the passing of the extensions, thanking Senator ...

FPA accuses ASIC of price gouging

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has hit back at the corporate regulator accusing it of price gouging after increasing the industry funding levy for financial advisers by 38%. The FPA has urged the corporate regulator to reconsider the ...

Former Fidelity wholesale head joins Sydney boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... Atticus Wealth as its head of distribution. Atticus Wealth was founded in 2015 and currently provides SMAs to two financial planning groups Australian Financial Planning Group (AFPG) and Keystone Wealth. Atticus' off-the-shelf SMAs are currently offered ...

Sam Henderson in court over phantom degree

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... clients a Financial Services Guide, containing the false representation that he held a Master of Commerce (Financial Planning)," ASIC said. The charges were mentioned at the Downing Centre Local Court yesterday. Henderson did not enter a guilty plea ...

ASIC mainly concerned with media releases: Lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... resulted in even more regulation adding to this burden. "Lawyers are nowhere near as heavily regulated as the financial planning profession. Planners have been legislated to within an inch of their lives," he said. "And, sadly, some planners have paid ...

Dealer groups slam FPA policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
Fortnum, Centrepoint, Easton Wealth, CountPlus, Fitzpatricks and Paragem have all criticised the Financial Planning Association of Australia's latest policy proposal. The FPA wants to see AFSLs only responsible for the oversight of product compliance ...