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Advisers shun major institutions, 500 exit: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... and Morgans Financial gained the most advisers. Meanwhile, Merit Wealth, AMP Financial Planning, and Bridges Financial Services lost the highest number of advisers. Superannuation fund-linked advisers is the smallest institutional segment comprising ...

ASIC hits Melbourne adviser with travel ban

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... (VIC), King Financial Group (NSW), and King Financial Group (QLD). Wealth Effect Advisory is an Australian financial services licensee of which King is a director. King has held an AFSL since 2007 and was previously licensed under Principal Financial ...

Consultation opens on tax practitioners' registration

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... actions resulted in a two-year ban from the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB), while ASIC barred him from working in financial services. In the newly released consultation paper, Treasury said it wants to reform the registration framework to realign it with ...

Challenger executive joins Bell FG

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... Financial Group as we see the intergenerational wealth transfer start to gather momentum. Across the entire financial services industry, this substantial transfer of assets and wealth will have significant implications for investors of all types." In ...

Industry funds defend CFMEU board ties

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... that all its board directors are appointed under the requirements of the SIS Act, Corporations Act, Australian Financial Services Licence obligations, and Superannuation Prudential Standard 520 Fit and Proper (CPS250). "We have robust procedures for ...

ASIC bans 'incompetent' financial services directors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... foreign exchange contracts. The directors, Shay Zakhaim and Anthony Anderson, have been banned from running a financial services business as directors or as responsible managers for three and five years, respectively. ASIC cancelled XTrade's Australian ...

Canned 'golden visas' ruffle fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... high-growth potential companies, innovation, entrepreneurship, employment, and economic growth," he said. The Financial Services Council (FSC) estimates SIVs attracted $15 billion from investors, mainly from China. Some $2.7 billion of this is in venture ...

Mercer Super chalks up 11.2% return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... Mercer Super's results announcement comes days after Industry Moves reported that the super fund appointed financial services veteran Jim Minto as its new chair, replacing Jan Swinhoe, who departed after a decade on the board.

ASIC permanently bans Queensland adviser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... banned Queensland-based financial adviser Anass Abdalla. ASIC said Abdalla has been banned from providing any financial services, performing any function involved in the carrying on of a financial services business and from controlling an entity that ...

FICAP to support Aussie icon in 2024

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... chair Marnie McLaren said. "Reaching $3 million is a testament to the incredible spirit of giving within the financial services industry and we couldn't be more grateful to our sponsors for their unwavering support." The 2024 RockStar event takes ...