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Invartis enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... and managing partner Gordon Brown said. "Nigel brings outstanding consulting and corporate experience across financial services and wealth asset management, along with a deep understanding of the Australian market. He is a great addition to the team ...

Adviser permanently banned for faking qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... having passed the Financial Adviser Exam. Dashiel Benjo Vee, also known as Dash Vee, is banned from providing financial services, controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business or performing any function involved in the carrying ...

Global outfit acquires Vasco Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
Vasco Trustees is to be bought by diversified financial services group TMF Group. Melbourne-based Vasco Trustees has been acquired by the group, which boasts more than 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, offering employee, financial and legal administration ...

Stake to operate under its own AFSL

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
Stake currently provides financial services as an authorised representative of Sanlam Private Wealth and global payments giant Airwallex; both hold an AFSL. But soon, Stake will operate under its own AFSL, offering services as an authorised representative ...

AAT slashes adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). The AAT varied ASIC's decision to ban Christopher Betalli from providing financial services following his appeal. ASIC ordered the ban on 1 May 2021. The AAT ruled it will now end on 24 April 2025. Between 30 ...

First advice reform bill passes parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... administrative steps in obtaining clients' consent to ongoing fee arrangements, provide flexibility in producing the Financial Services Guides, and improve transparency and protections for consumers who receive personal advice on insurance products. ...

iExtend receives AFSL after lengthy wait

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... having the AFSL "also broadens the scope of iExtend's offering, enabling iExtend to fully participate in the financial services market and to provide financial advisers with stronger support to help their clients with insurances that would otherwise ...

Former director disqualified for breaching obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Having been involved in three failed companies, ASIC has disqualified a former financial services industry director for five years. Christian Oey was the director of two financial services companies between May 1999 and November 2018, Clickthru and ...

Committee calls for 'sick agency' ASIC to be split in half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... transparency, and that it be provided in draft form to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services for inquiry and report. The committee also believes the government should make it a legislated regulatory objective of ASIC's ...

Federation AM invests in Astris Advisory

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
Federation Asset Management has taken a stake in Japanese financial services firm Astris Advisory Japan K.K. for an undisclosed amount. The Tokyo-based advisory firm helps connect Japanese corporates with the international investment community and vice ...