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Accountant banned for bad SMSF advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
A Gold Coast accountant has been banned from providing financial services for three years, after agreeing to a court enforceable undertaking with ASIC. Jenan Oslem Thorne - who also goes by the names Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen - was found by the corporate ...

Netflix-style shopping for funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... to buy the investment product, or to be sent an email with details of the fund which they can then forward on to their adviser. Forum360 provides feedback and analysis based off hard data from shopping through to booking, in-meeting activity, and post ...

ANZ launches underwriting engine to market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... questionnaire. This is automatically flagged with the underwriter who would then work behind the scenes with the financial or risk adviser and client - this requires a lot of manual work, he said. Tutt said the end game is to minimise the laborious work ...

ASIC and Austplan agree to mutual breakup

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Austplan will lose its Australian financial services licence in November following ASIC surveillance which found deficiencies in the establishment of self-managed superannuation funds and client referrals. ASIC will cancel Austplan's AFSL effective ...

Financial advice as charitable giving

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 OCT 2018
... Registered with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission, Leda Financial Advice was founded by financial adviser Michael Ward in Perth's Mt Lawley. Leda stands for Listen, Educate, [provide] Direction and take Action, Ward explained. ...

FPA appoints former ASFA adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
... Financial Planning Association of Australia has snapped up an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia senior policy adviser to fill a newly-created role. The FPA has created the role of professional practice manager to focus on the association's ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... of the term 'advice' should be limited to effort that is undertaken on a client's behalf by a professional adviser." Currently, the terminology of advice requires consumers to intuitively understand that general advice is like marketing ...

AFA criticises draft FASEA standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
The Association of Financial Advisers released its assessment of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority's 12 draft standards, pointing to numerous areas that need clarity and focus, particularly around governance at the licensee level. ...

IPS triples funds under administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... clients, which shows that IPS truly gives its advisers a point of differentiation which helps them engage new clients and referral partners like accountants." The news comes after BTFG announced last week that its BT Panorama platform passed $10 billion ...

Elders appoints four advisers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... create real value during this period of change in the industry," Beaven said. The appointments take the dealer group's adviser number to 28. "Over the last two years we have transformed our business and initiated a communication strategy which has increased ...