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Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
The disgraced director of Select AFSL, the company the Hayne Royal Commission exposed for hawking life and funeral insurance to vulnerable customers, has been banned from managing a company for five years, while his companies were fined $13.5 million. ...

ASIC permanently bans David Sutton

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... disqualified him from managing corporations for five years. The regulator also cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of McFaddens Securities, now known by its previous name APC Securities. ASIC's doubts surfaced following Sutton's ...

Anti-hawking laws could dampen super fund advice: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... cold-calling consumers, trying to convince them to switch their super fund. It copped a $70,000 fine. National Advice Solutions' AFSL was cancelled in December and its two responsible managers, Gail Glasby and Paul Carcallas, were both banned by ...

Large AFSLs lead advice complaints: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
Financial advisers from large aligned AFSL groups bear the brunt of complaints, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority's data, with several AMP and Insignia Financial practices leading the pack. Modelling of the AFCA data shows ...

Treasury to scrap advice admin burdens, boosts intra-fund advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
The federal government will scrap a load of administrative burdens and give superannuation funds a larger role in making financial advice more affordable as it announces which out of the 22 Quality of Advice Review recommendations will become a reality ...

Advice practice valuations rise: Radar Results

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... themselves from adverse trends and show a positive return on the investment made by our buyers." Advisers can sell their AFSL once clients have transferred to another licensee. Birt sees a high demand for AFSLs, which, when dormant, can either be handed ...

Director charged over illegal investment scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... conduct, eight counts of dealing with proceeds of crime, and one count of carrying on a financial services business without an AFSL. From June 2019, Arandez was operated the business without a licence. Prior, he was licensed through SIRA Group for three ...

Collapsed trading house hit with charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... grossly inaccurate. ASIC first banned D'Amore from providing financial services in 2018, as well as cancelling Berndale's AFSL. A year later, the corporate regulator had Bernadale and its two associated companies, Berndale Capital Securities Management ...

ASIC revokes Centurion subsidiary licence, suspends fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Centurion Custodian Funds Management and suspended Huntley Management for non-compliance. The AFS licence of Centurion Custodian Funds Management, a subsidiary of Centurion, has been cancelled effective from January 18. ...

Boutique co-founder jumps to AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... the global small-caps strategy." Randall noted that Talmage was instrumental in setting up the business, the operations, AFSL, managing the portfolios and played a big part in developing the global small-caps strategy. "Megan is also great fun to work ...