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FPA board member joins new firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... right experience, including 10 years as a self-licensed adviser, and deep knowledge of the need to pair professional standards with the right commercial focus when pricing the value of advice for financial planning firms," Jones said. "At the heart of ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... introducing an international body that regulates mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases, establishes protocols and auditing standards to ensure companies are providing quality data. "In the interim, while reporting remains voluntary, data providers ...

Hume scrutinises super fund spend

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... a package that will encourage competition between funds, remove unnecessary waste built into the system, and improve standards so funds can focus on delivering better performance and minimise unnecessary expenditure," she said. From 1 July 2021, employers ...

CountPlus to continue acquisition spree

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... licensee model borne by the adviser to member firms and rejigged its adviser cohort to ensure they meet the professional standards in place. Rowe said a further 240 financial advisers have enquired to join Count Financial but they must meet these standards. ...

ASX market outage lasts all day

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... be resolved over night and that the market would be able to open again at 10am. "The outage falls short of the high standards we set ourselves and the standards others expect of us," ASX chief executive and managing director Dominic Stevens said. "Notwithstanding ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... from a hard cap to a "material weight" will mean remains to be seen. Bird said "material" is used in other prudential standards relating to risk but is not defined as such in corporations law. "I've seen evidence that 25% of remuneration from non-financial ...

Gwen Fletcher Award winner named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... commitment to Gwen's legacy of improving the financial planning profession through education and higher professional standards."

SASB appoints Australian advisor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
The global body responsible for setting sustainability disclosure standards has appointed its first senior advisor for Australia following increased interest from local institutional investors. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has ...

New fixed income boutique launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... business. The quality of the people within the business and the partners to the business, is a great example of the high standards we have within Fund Income," Lechte said. "Over time Fortlake and the Bond Income business will have some shared capability ...

Three advisers banned for non-financial crimes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... them to be fit and proper people to carry out financial services in light of their convictions. "The FCA expects high standards of character, probity and fitness and properness from those who operate in the financial services industry and will take action ...